Race condition in Opensuse and Google Chrome - CVE-2012-2868
Published: August 31, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43646
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-2012-2868
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Google
Affected software:
Opensuse
Google Chrome
Opensuse
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Race condition in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving improper interaction between worker processes and an XMLHttpRequest (aka XHR) object.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2868
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136881
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html
- http://osvdb.org/85033
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78177
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15842