CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4576
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
browser/worker_host/message_port_dispatcher.cc in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343 does not properly handle certain postMessage calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code that creates a web worker.
Affected configurations
• google chrome os (< 8.0.552.343)
• google chrome (< 8.0.552.224)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63529 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42648 Third Party Advisory
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=66620 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45390 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14161 Third Party Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63529 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42648 Third Party Advisory
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=66620 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45390 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14161 Third Party Advisory