Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-4576 - Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Google Chrome and Chrome OS
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Windows |
NASL id | GOOGLE_CHROME_8_0_552_224.NASL |
description | The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is earlier than 8.0.552.224. Such versions are reportedly affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A bad extension can cause the browser to crash in tab handling. (Issue #60761) - A NULL pointer can lead to a browser crash in web worker handling. (Issue #63592) - An out-of-bounds read can occur in CSS parsing. (Issue #63866) - Stale pointers could occur in cursor handling. (Issue #64959) |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 51161 |
published | 2010-12-14 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/51161 |
title | Google Chrome < 8.0.552.224 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
code |
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Oval
accepted | 2014-04-07T04:00:52.653-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14161 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2011-11-25T18:07:02.000-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title | 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
version | 52 |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63529
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42648
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=66620
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45390
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14161