CVE-2012-2867 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2867?

CVE-2012-2867 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 31 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SPDY implementation in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2867?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2867?

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-2012-2867 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2867 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-6q5v-8645-frrm.