CVE-2009-2955 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2009-2955?

CVE-2009-2955 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

Google Chrome 1.0.154.48 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash), a related issue to CVE-2008-5715.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2955?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2009-2955?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2955 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-2009-2955 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2955 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7mf2-2xwm-399x.