CVE-2010-4042 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4042?

CVE-2010-4042 is a critical memory corruption 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

Google Chrome before 7.0.517.41 does not properly handle element maps, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to "stale elements."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4042?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4042?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4042 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-4042 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4042 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8866-6hh4-fgrc.