Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.77, does not perform all required initialization of values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Chromium update to version 18.0.1022 fixes several security issues

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201201-17 (Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium. Please review       the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web       site using Chromium, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary       code with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service       condition.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Google Chrome Releases reports :

[106484] High CVE-2011-3924: Use-after-free in DOM selections. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[108461] High CVE-2011-3928: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to wushi of team509 reported through ZDI (ZDI-CAN-1415).

[108605] High CVE-2011-3927: Uninitialized value in Skia. Credit to miaubiz.

[109556] High CVE-2011-3926: Heap-buffer-overflow in tree builder.
Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is earlier than 16.0.912.77 and is, therefore, affected the following vulnerabilities:

  - Use-after-free errors exist related to DOM selections,     DOM handling and Safe Browsing functionality.
    (CVE-2011-3924, CVE-2011-3925, CVE-2011-3928)

  - A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the 'tree     builder'. (CVE-2011-3926)

  - An error exists related to an uninitialized value in     'Skia'. (CVE-2011-3927)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
74543	openSUSE Security Update : chromium / v8 (openSUSE-2012-107)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
57723	GLSA-201201-17 : Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
57675	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (33d73d59-4677-11e1-88cd-00262d5ed8ee)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
57666	Google Chrome < 16.0.912.77 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high

Detections

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CVE-2011-3927

critical

Tenable Plugins

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