CVE-2012-5131 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5131?

CVE-2012-5131 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 28 Nov 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 23.0.1271.91 on Mac OS X does not properly mitigate improper rendering behavior in the Intel GPU driver, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5131?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5131?

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-2012-5131 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5131 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-wmvc-592c-7639.