Resource exhaustion in Google Chrome - CVE-2011-0985
Published: February 10, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45329
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-2011-0985
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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.
Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly perform process termination upon memory exhaustion, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-0985
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=70456
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/stable-channel-update_08.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43368
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2166
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46262
- http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2190
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0408
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14506