Bug 656118 – CVE-2010-4198 WebKit: Memory corruption due to improper handling of large text area

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Bug 656118 - (CVE-2010-4198) CVE-2010-4198 WebKit: Memory corruption due to improper handling of large text area

Summary:	CVE-2010-4198 WebKit: Memory corruption due to improper handling of large tex...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2010-4198

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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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	640385 640386 667027
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Reported:	2010-11-22 23:33 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2012-03-07 02:05 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-03-07 02:05:23 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 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-11-22 23:33:15 EST

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-4198 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-4198
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4198 [Open URL]
Assigned: 20101105
Reference: CONFIRM:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257
Reference: CONFIRM:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html

Upstream Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611
Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/69801

Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44 does not properly handle large text
areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a
crafted HTML document.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 00:14:32 EST

This is fixed in webkitgtk 1.2.6

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 00:53:23 EST

Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-13 [bug 667027]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-25 12:07:52 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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