CVE-2012-2819 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2819?

CVE-2012-2819 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 27 Jun 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

The texSubImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem in Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 does not properly handle uploads to floating-point textures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web page, as demonstrated by certain WebGL performance tests, aka rdar problem 11520387.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2819?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2819?

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-2012-2819 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2819 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-9g98-h4p4-9795, UBUNTU-CVE-2012-2819.