Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-0479 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer 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
Google Chrome before 8.0.552.237 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.344 do not properly interact with extensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted extension that triggers an uninitialized pointer.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Windows |
NASL id | GOOGLE_CHROME_8_0_552_237.NASL |
description | The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is earlier than 8.0.552.237. Such versions are reportedly affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A browser crash exists in extensions notification handling. (Issue #58053) - Bad pointer handling exists in node iteration. (Issue #65764) - Multiple crashes exist when printing multi-page PDFs. (Issue #66334) - A stale pointer exists with CSS + canvas. (Issue #66560) - A stale pointer exists with CSS + cursors. (Issue #66748) - A use-after-free error exists in PDF handling. (Issue #67100) - A stack corruption error exists after PDF out-of-memory conditions. (Issue #67208) - A bad memory access issue exists when handling mismatched video frame sizes. (Issue #67303) - A stale pointer exists with SVG use element. (Issue #67363) - An uninitialized pointer exists in the browser which is triggered by rogue extensions. (Issue #67393) - Multiple buffer overflows exist in the Vorbis decoder. (Issue #68115) - A buffer overflow exists in PDF shading. (Issue #68170) - A bad cast exists in anchor handling. (Issue #68178) - A bad cast exists in video handling. (Issue #68181) - A stale rendering node exists after DOM node removal. (Issue #68439) - A stale pointer exists in speech handling. (Issue #68666) |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 51511 |
published | 2011-01-13 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/51511 |
title | Google Chrome < 8.0.552.237 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Oval
accepted | 2014-04-07T04:01:47.818-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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description | Google Chrome before 8.0.552.237 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.344 do not properly interact with extensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted extension that triggers an uninitialized pointer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14746 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2011-12-09T10:37:01.000-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title | Google Chrome before 8.0.552.237 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.344 do not properly interact with extensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted extension that triggers an uninitialized pointer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
version | 52 |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=67393
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-stable-release.html
- http://osvdb.org/70462
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42951
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45788
- http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2054
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64670
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14746