CVE-2010-4488 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4488?

CVE-2010-4488 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 7 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 does not properly handle HTTP proxy authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4488?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4488?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4488 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-2010-4488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4488 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-v6v9-mhx2-r84m.