Bug 645914 – CVE-2010-3255 webkit: DoS via improper handling of counter nodes

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Bug 645914 - (CVE-2010-3255) CVE-2010-3255 webkit: DoS via improper handling of counter nodes

Summary:	CVE-2010-3255 webkit: DoS via improper handling of counter nodes

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2010-3255

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:	640385 640386 667027
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Reported:	2010-10-22 17:47 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 02:03:54 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 2010-10-22 17:47:00 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-3255
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3255
Assigned: 20100907
Reference: CONFIRM: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51653
Reference: CONFIRM: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/09/stable-and-beta-channel-updates.html

Google Chrome before 6.0.472.53 does not properly handle counter nodes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. 

Other references:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43812
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/66052

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-11-18 12:32:57 EST

Apple also assigned CVE-2010-3822 to this issue.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 00:45:26 EST

This is fixed in webkitgtk 1.2.5

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 00:55:35 EST

Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-13 [bug 667027]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-25 12:07:48 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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