70985 : Google Chrome Invalid Extension Loading Missing Key DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
9	1023	over 2 years ago	4 months ago	3 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-02-04

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
85 days	1 days

Description

Google Chrome contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when the program fails to properly handle a missing key in an extension, allowing a context-dependent attacker to use a crafted extension to crash the browser.

Classification

Location: Context Dependent
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Web Related, Not a Vulnerability

Solution

Upgrade to version 9.0.597.84 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Google, Inc.

Chrome

8.0.552.237

References

OVAL ID: 14540
CVE ID: 2011-0779 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 43193 43782
Related OSVDB ID: 70982 70983 70984 70986 70987 70988 70989 70990
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2011-0671 [ Link is 404 ]
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62791
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/stable-channel-update.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2192

Credit

Brian Kirchoff

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-02-07 | Disagree? | There are 1 more: View All

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