CVE-2010-4491 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4491?

CVE-2010-4491 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 7 Dec 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 before 8.0.552.215 does not properly restrict privileged extensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted extension.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4491?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4491?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-4491 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-2010-4491 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4491 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-32x7-c7f5-m8mm.