Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-4040 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-4040
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4040
Assigned: 20101021
Reference: CONFIRM: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=54500
Reference: CONFIRM: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/10/stable-channel-update.html
Reference: BID:44241
Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44241
Reference: SECUNIA:41888
Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/41888
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2010-2731
Reference: URL: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2731

Google Chrome before 7.0.517.41 does not properly handle animated GIF
images, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a
crafted image.


This does affect webkitgtk 1.2.3 (high CPU consumption, rapid memory consumption) and possibly other versions.

Additional references:

Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46437
Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/68446