CVE-2010-4198

WebKit: Memory corruption due to improper handling of large text area

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, does not properly handle large text areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.

Google Chrome antes de su versión v7.0.517.44 no maneja correctamente areas de texto demasiado grandes, lo que permite a atacantes remotos causar una denegación de servicio (por corrupción de memoria) o incluso posiblemente tener algún otro impacto no especificado a travñes de un documento HTML debidamente modificado.

This GLSA contains notification of vulnerabilities found in several Gentoo packages which have been fixed prior to January 1, 2012. The worst of these vulnerabilities could lead to local privilege escalation and remote code execution.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2010-11-05 CVE Reserved
2010-11-05 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CAPEC

References (13)

URL	Tag	Source
http://secunia.com/advisories/42109	Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086	Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719	Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216	Not Applicable
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552	Not Applicable
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12157	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118	2011-01-25

URL	Date	SRC
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257	2020-07-31
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html	2020-07-31
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html	2020-07-31
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039	2020-07-31
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html	2020-07-31
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4198	2011-01-25

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Google Search vendor "Google"		Chrome Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome"				< 7.0.517.44 Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" and version " < 7.0.517.44"		-		Affected
Webkitgtk Search vendor "Webkitgtk"		Webkitgtk Search vendor "Webkitgtk" for product "Webkitgtk"				1.2.6 Search vendor "Webkitgtk" for product "Webkitgtk" and version "1.2.6"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				13 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "13"		-		Affected