Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1691 - Null Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Google Chrome
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The counterToCSSValue function in CSSComputedStyleDeclaration.cpp in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in WebCore in WebKit before r82222, as used in Google Chrome before 11.0.696.43 and other products, does not properly handle access to the (1) counterIncrement and (2) counterReset attributes of CSSStyleDeclaration data provided by a getComputedStyle method call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Oval
| accepted | 2014-04-07T04:01:09.338-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| description | The counterToCSSValue function in CSSComputedStyleDeclaration.cpp in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in WebCore in WebKit before r82222, as used in Google Chrome before 11.0.696.43 and other products, does not properly handle access to the (1) counterIncrement and (2) counterReset attributes of CSSStyleDeclaration data provided by a getComputedStyle method call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14365 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| submitted | 2011-11-25T18:15:21.000-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title | The counterToCSSValue function in CSSComputedStyleDeclaration.cpp in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in WebCore in WebKit before r82222, as used in Google Chrome before 11.0.696.43 and other products, does not properly handle access to the (1) counterIncrement and (2) counterReset attributes of CSSStyleDeclaration data provided by a getComputedStyle method call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version | 52 |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=77665
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/04/beta-channel-update_12.html
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/82222
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57266
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66818
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14365