Bug 640357 – CVE-2010-3257 webkit: stale pointer issue with focusing

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Bug 640357 - (CVE-2010-3257) CVE-2010-3257 webkit: stale pointer issue with focusing

Summary:	CVE-2010-3257 webkit: stale pointer issue with focusing

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2010-3257

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	640382 640385 640386
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Reported:	2010-10-05 12:15 EDT by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2012-03-07 02:03 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-03-07 02:03:10 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:0177	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: webkitgtk security update	2011-01-25 12:07:15 EST

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Description Vincent Danen 2010-10-05 12:15:39 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-3257 to
the following vulnerability:

Google Chrome before 6.0.472.53 does not properly perform focus handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to a "stale pointer" issue.

References:

* Chrome bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=52443
* Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44226
* Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/65748

This issue has been corrected in WebKitGTK 1.2.5.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-10-05 13:19:27 EDT

Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 640382]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-25 12:07:44 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0177 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html

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