CVE-2011-3057 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3057?

CVE-2011-3057 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 22 Mar 2012. 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 V8, as used in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.83, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors that trigger an invalid read operation.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3057?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3057?

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-2011-3057 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3057 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-576p-hrj4-h4qq.