72484 : Google Chrome OGG Vorbis File Playing Memory Corruption
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
10	883	about 2 years ago	3 months ago	4 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-03-08

Time to Patch	Time to Vendor Response
33 days	5 days

Description

Google Chrome contains a flaw that is triggered as OGG Vorbis files are not properly validated when being played. With a specially crafted web page embedded media content, a context-dependent attacker can corrupt memory to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code.

Classification

Location: Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade Google Chrome to version 10.0.648.127 or higher and SRWare Iron to version 10.0.650.0 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Google, Inc.

Chrome

9.0.597.107

SRWare

SRWare Iron

9.0.600.2

References

OVAL ID: 14033
CVE ID: 2011-1196 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 43683 43745 46062
Bugtraq ID: 46785
ISS X-Force ID: 65960
Related OSVDB ID: 72472 72473 72474 72475 72476 72477 72478 72479 72480 72481 72482 72483 72485 72486 72487 72488 72489 72490 72491 72492 72493 72494
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2011-0628 [ Link is 404 ]
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=71788
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/chrome-stable-release.html
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72937 [ Auth Req'd ]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-September/001419.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2270

Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-03-11 | Disagree? | There are 1 more: View All

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