CVE-2012-5111 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering crashes in Pepper plug-ins within Google Chrome, requiring user interaction to load malicious content.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2012-5111?
CVE-2012-5111 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 9 Oct 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 Chrome before 22.0.1229.92 does not monitor for crashes of Pepper plug-ins, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5111?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2012-5111?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5111 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-2012-5111 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5111 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mwj9-m293-wgg5.