Input validation error in Google Chrome - CVE-2012-2819
Published: June 27, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43948
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-2012-2819
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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.
The texSubImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem in Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 does not properly handle uploads to floating-point textures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web page, as demonstrated by certain WebGL performance tests, aka rdar problem 11520387.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-2819
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=120977
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/117191
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/118410
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85942
- https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10444013
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15075728
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14938