National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4340
Original release date:09/30/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: google-chrome-carriagereturn-dos(45403)
External Source: BID
Name: 31375
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080924 Advisory : Google Chrome Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion Remote Dos.
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 6554
External Source: SREASON
Name: 4339
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secniche.org/gcrds.html