NULL pointer dereference in Google Chrome
CVE-2010-4576
browser/worker_host/message_port_dispatcher.cc in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343 does not properly handle certain postMessage calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code that creates a web worker.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/42648 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14161 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/45390 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail (Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)