Google Chrome < 8.0.552.215 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5719

Synopsis

The remote host contains a web browser that is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

Versions of Google Chrome earlier than 8.0.552.215 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- It may be possible to bypass the pop-up blocker. (17655)

- A cross-origin video theft vulnerability exists related to canvas. (55747) - An unspecified crash exists when handling HTML5 databases. (56237) - Excessive file dialogs could lead to a browser crash. (58329) - A use after free error exists in history handling. (59554) - It may be possible to crash the browser when performing http proxy authentication. (61701) - An out-of-bounds read regression exists in the WebM video support. (61653)

- It may be possible to crash the browser due to bad indexing with malformed video. (62127)

- A memory corruption issue exists relating t malicious privileged extension. (62168)

- A use-after-free error exists in the mouse dragging event handling. (63051)

- A double free error exists in XPath handling. (63444)

Solution

Upgrade to Google Chrome 8.0.552.215 or later.

See Also

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5719

Family: Web Clients

Published: 12/6/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 50977

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:google:chrome

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4484

BID: 45170