CVE-2010-1237 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1237?

CVE-2010-1237 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 1 Apr 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

Google Chrome 4.1 BETA before 4.1.249.1036 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory error) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an empty SVG element.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1237?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1237?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1237 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-2010-1237 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-1237 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-678h-g5gp-jp98.