CVE-2008-6997 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-6997?

CVE-2008-6997 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 18 Aug 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an IMG tag with a long src attribute, which triggers the crash when the victim performs an "Inspect Element" action.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6997?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2008-6997?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6997 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-6997 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-6997 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jp8p-2mrh-r972.