CVE-2010-0664 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Google Chrome via memory exhaustion by crafting URLs with repeated protocol prefixes, requiring user interaction to visit the link.
- 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-2010-0664?
CVE-2010-0664 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 18 Feb 2010. 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
Stack consumption vulnerability in the ChildProcessSecurityPolicy::CanRequestURL function in browser/child_process_security_policy.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a URL that specifies multiple protocols, as demonstrated by a URL that begins with many repetitions of the view-source: substring.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0664?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2010-0664?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-0664 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-2010-0664 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0664 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3x3p-75r6-3954.