CVE-2010-4038 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4038?

CVE-2010-4038 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 21 Oct 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Web Sockets implementation in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.41 does not properly handle a shutdown action, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-404

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4038?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4038?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4038 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-2010-4038 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4038 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-q25r-8gwq-2w82.