81945 : Google Chrome FTP Sourced Video File Handling DoS Weakness
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2012-05-15

Time to Patch
98 days

Description

Google Chrome contains a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the 'ProfileImplIOData::LazyInitializeInternal' function in chrome/browser/profiles/profile_impl_io_data.cc when handling FTP sourced video files. With a specially crafted web page, a context-dependent attacker can crash the browser.

Classification

Location: Context Dependent
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: PoC Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Web Related, Not a Vulnerability

Solution

Upgrade to version 19.0.1084.46 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

18.0.1025.168

References

Security Tracker: 1027067
OVAL ID: 15103
CVE ID: 2011-3083 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 49194 49240 49278 49420
Bugtraq ID: 53540
Related OSVDB ID: 81946 81947 81948 81949 81950 81951 81952 81953 81954 81955 81956 81957 81958 81959 81960 81961 81962 81963 81964
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=112983
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=127924
http://codereview.chromium.org/9372002
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/05/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-05/msg00040.html
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/profiles/profile_impl_io_data.cc?r1=121378&r2=121377&pathrev=121378
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=121378
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201205-03.xml
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3729

Credit

Aki Helin - Oulu University Secure Programming Group

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2012-05-16 | Disagree? | There are 1 more: View All

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