CVE-2010-0659

Description

The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14079

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231

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

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506

http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

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

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3