CVE-2010-4577medium
Description
The CSSParser::parseFontFaceSrc function in WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224, Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products does not properly parse Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted local font, related to "Type Confusion."
References
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63866
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42648
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685/trunk/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45722
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49883
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667025
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13953