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
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-3255
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 640385 640386 667027
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-10-22 21:47 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-03-07 07:03:54 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 Vincent Danen 2010-10-22 21:47:00 UTC 
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 17:32:57 UTC 
Apple also assigned CVE-2010-3822 to this issue.
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 05:45:26 UTC 
This is fixed in webkitgtk 1.2.5
Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-04 05:55:35 UTC 
Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-13 [bug 667027]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-25 17:07:48 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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