Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU44280

Improper Certificate Validation in Google Chrome - CVE-2011-3024

Published: February 16, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU44280

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3024

CWE-ID: CWE-295

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Google Chrome before 17.0.963.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty X.509 certificate.

Google Chrome
Gentoo Linux

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Google Chrome - update to 17.0.963.56