CVE-2008-7061 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a browser crash or high CPU usage by tricking users into visiting a page with a long tooltip title.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-7061?
CVE-2008-7061 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 24 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
The tooltip manager (chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc) in Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 Build 1798 and possibly other versions before 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a tag with a long title attribute, which is not properly handled when displaying a tooltip, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6994. NOTE: there is inconsistent information about the environments under which this issue exists.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-7061?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2008-7061?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-7061 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-2008-7061 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-7061 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j2m3-6m57-7jjv.