Buffer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2013-2917
Published: October 2, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42498
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2917
CWE-ID: CWE-119
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 perform service disruption.
The ReverbConvolverStage::ReverbConvolverStage function in core/platform/audio/ReverbConvolverStage.cpp in the Web Audio implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 30.0.1599.66, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors related to the impulseResponse array.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2917
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/10/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-10/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00042.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2785
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=281480
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18820
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=157007&view=revision