CVE-2010-0659

WebKit < r52833 - Remote Code Execution via Malformed GIF Image Decoding

Title source: llm

Description

The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14079

Scores

EPSS 0.0319

EPSS Percentile 86.8%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (49)

apple/webkit < r53524

google/chrome 0.2.149.27

google/chrome 0.2.149.29

google/chrome 0.2.149.30

google/chrome 0.2.152.1

google/chrome 0.2.153.1

google/chrome 0.3.154.0

google/chrome 0.3.154.3

google/chrome 0.4.154.18

google/chrome 0.4.154.22

... and 39 more

Published Feb 18, 2010

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026