CVE-2012-2853 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2853?

CVE-2012-2853 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 Aug 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 webRequest API in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, does not properly interact with the Chrome Web Store, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2853?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2853?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-2853 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2012-2853 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2853 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-pwhw-9fxq-9f7r.