Critical severity · published Nov 6, 2010
CVE-2010-4197
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…
9.8
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving text editing.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Chrome · Google
before 7.0.517.44 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
13 · source: NVD
WE
Webkitgtk · Webkitgtk
before 1.2.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4197
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4197
Exploit
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51602
Release Notes
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/42109
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
Mailing List
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/70594
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