CVE-2010-0664

medium

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the ChildProcessSecurityPolicy::CanRequestURL function in browser/child_process_security_policy.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a URL that specifies multiple protocols, as demonstrated by a URL that begins with many repetitions of the view-source: substring.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14097

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-0695

http://twitter.com/akirsanov/statuses/7370288490

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html

http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31517

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-02-18

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01471