CVE-2013-6627 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2013-6627?

CVE-2013-6627 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 13 Nov 2013. 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

net/http/http_stream_parser.cc in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.48 does not properly process HTTP Informational (aka 1xx) status codes, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted response.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6627?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2013-6627?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2013-6627 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-6627 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mhhh-874c-f34g.