Resource management error in Google Chrome - CVE-2013-6625
Published: November 13, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42373
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6625
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Use-after-free vulnerability in core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.48, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper handling of DOM range objects in circumstances that require child node removal after a (1) mutation or (2) blur event.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6625
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0009.html
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/11/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00042.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6162
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6163
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2799
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=295010
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19257
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=160037&view=revision
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6537