77037 : Google Chrome Editing Unspecified Use-after-free Remote Issue
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-11-10

Time to Patch
13 days

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-3897" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 15.0.874.120 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to editing.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Impact Unknown
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 15.0.874.120 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

15.0.874.117

References

Security Tracker: 1026774
OVAL ID: 14250
CVE ID: 2011-3897 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 46815 46933 48274 48288 48377
Bugtraq ID: 50642
Related OSVDB ID: 77032 77033 77034 77035 77036 77038
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201111-05.xml
Mail List Post: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Mar/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Mar/msg00003.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5190
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5191
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5192
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102242 [ Auth Req'd ]
Other Advisory URL: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-12-147/

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-11-11 | Disagree?

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