CVE-2011-0783 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-0783?

CVE-2011-0783 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Feb 2011. 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

Unspecified vulnerability in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving a "bad volume setting."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-0783?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2011-0783?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2011-0783 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0783 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-wq2p-9v2c-mv7x.