CVE-2009-3933

Description

WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method, which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54297

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212

http://www.osvdb.org/59745

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310

http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html

http://codereview.chromium.org/339039

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3