Use-after-free in Opensuse - CVE-2013-6641
Published: January 16, 2014 / Updated: September 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU46360
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-2013-6641
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Affected software:
Opensuse
Opensuse
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the FormAssociatedElement::formRemovedFromTree function in core/html/FormAssociatedElement.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 32.0.1700.76 on Windows and before 32.0.1700.77 on Mac OS X and Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper handling of the past names map of a FORM element.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6641
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/01/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00008.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2862
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/1dfd387bd88cc0ebaef3a2302e72ac1c6101b91b
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=326854