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CVE-2010-4577
high
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667025
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13953
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49883
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45722
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685/trunk/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
http://secunia.com/advisories/42648
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html