#VU42375 Buffer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2013-6627
Published: November 13, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42375
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6627
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Software vendor:
Google
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
net/http/http_stream_parser.cc in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.48 does not properly process HTTP Informational (aka 1xx) status codes, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted response.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- http://blog.skylined.nl/20161219001.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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140209/Chrome-HTTP-1xx-Out-Of-Bounds-Read.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/65
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2799
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=299892
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19113
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=226539&view=revision
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40944/