PT-2012-4302 · Microsoft+3 · Windows+4

Published 2012-07-31 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-2849

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux Google Chrome versions prior to 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame

Description The issue is an off-by-one error in the GIF decoder, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service through an out-of-bounds read via a crafted image.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, update to version 21.0.1180.57 or later. For Google Chrome versions prior to 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, update to version 21.0.1180.60 or later.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2849

Affected Products

Chrome Frame

Google Chrome

Linux

Macos X

Windows

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2849 · Security Note
• https://crbug.com/128163 · Note
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html · Note
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128163 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15653 · Note