Detections
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CVE-2010-4577
high
Description
The CSSParser::parseFontFaceSrc function in WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224, Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products does not properly parse Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted local font, related to "Type Confusion."
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667025
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49883
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685/trunk/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html