# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Aug 2009
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j2m3-6m57-7jjv

## 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: 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.

## 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:

- Google Chrome 0.2.149 - Malformed 'title' Tag Remote Denial of Service (exploitdb)

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-7061 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-7061 exists.

Affected product: Google Chrome. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7061/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7061/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-7061
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7061
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-7061

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.