Resource exhaustion in Google Chrome - CVE-2011-0985
Published: February 10, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45329
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-2011-0985
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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.
Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly perform process termination upon memory exhaustion, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
Affected software
Google Chrome
How to mitigate CVE-2011-0985
Install update from vendor's website.
Google Chrome - update to 9.0.597.94
External References
- 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