PT-2010-5543 · Google · Chrome Os+1

Published 2010-12-22 · Updated 2020-07-29 · CVE-2010-4576

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 Google Chrome versions prior to 8.0.552.224 Chrome OS versions prior to 8.0.552.343

Description The issue is related to the handling of postMessage calls in the browser/worker host/message port dispatcher.cc component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via crafted JavaScript code that creates a web worker.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 8.0.552.224, update to version 8.0.552.224 or later to resolve the issue. For Chrome OS versions prior to 8.0.552.343, update to version 8.0.552.343 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4576

Affected Products

Chrome Os

Google Chrome

References · 8

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63529 · Exploit
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=66620 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4576 · Security Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/45390 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42648 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14161 · Note