Integer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2011-3045

 

Integer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2011-3045

Published: March 22, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44186
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3045
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Integer signedness error in the png_inflate function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.4.10beta01, as used in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.83 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3026.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
Slackware Linux
openEuler
libpng10
syslinux
syslinux-extlinux-nonlinux
syslinux-nonlinux
syslinux-tftpboot
syslinux-debuginfo
syslinux-debugsource
syslinux-devel
syslinux-efi64
syslinux-extlinux
syslinux-perl

How to mitigate CVE-2011-3045

Install update from vendor's website.

Google Chrome - update to 17.0.963.83
libpng10 - update to 1.0.58-1.el6
syslinux - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-extlinux-nonlinux - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-nonlinux - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-tftpboot - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-debuginfo - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-debugsource - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-devel - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-efi64 - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-extlinux - update to 6.04-16
syslinux-perl - update to 6.04-16

External References

Related Security Bulletins