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...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-4198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 640385 640386 667027
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-23 04:33 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-03-07 07:05:23 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0177 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: webkitgtk security update 2011-01-25 17:07:15 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-11-23 04:33:15 UTC 
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 05:14:32 UTC 
This is fixed in webkitgtk 1.2.6
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 05:53:23 UTC 
Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-13 [bug 667027]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-25 17:07:52 UTC 
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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