CVE-2010-4198

high

Description

WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, 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.

References

Advisories
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12157

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-4172

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039

http://secunia.com/advisories/43086

http://secunia.com/advisories/42109

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-11-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01284