CVE-2011-2841 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2011-2841?

CVE-2011-2841 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 17 Sep 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

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly perform garbage collection during the processing of PDF documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2841?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2011-2841?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-2841 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-2011-2841 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2011-2841 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fw4j-g7xv-8pj8.