PT-2009-6149 · Google+1 · Google Chrome+1

James Robinson · Published 2009-11-12 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2009-3933

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WebKit versions before r50173 Google Chrome versions before 3.0.195.32

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption, by calling the JavaScript setInterval method on a web page. This triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.

Recommendations For WebKit versions before r50173, update to version r50173 or later. For Google Chrome versions before 3.0.195.32, update to version 3.0.195.32 or later.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3933

Affected Products

Google Chrome

Webkit

References · 13

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://codereview.chromium.org/339039 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3933 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54297 · Note
• http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173 · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892 · Note
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311 · Note
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/59745 · Note
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 · Note