77706 : Google Chrome regex Matching Out-of-bounds Read Remote DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-12-13

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-3903" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Google Chrome before 16.0.912.63 does not properly perform regex matching, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 16.0.912.63 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Google, Inc.

Chrome

15.0.874.121

References

OVAL ID: 14704
CVE ID: 2011-3903 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 47231 47445
Related OSVDB ID: 77707 77708 77709 77710 77711 77712 77713 77714 77715 77716 77717 77718 77719 77720
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=81753 [ Auth Req'd ]
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/12/stable-channel-update.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-03.xml

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-12-14 | Disagree?

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