CVE-2008-4340 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.

Published: 2008-09-30

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: 9.9% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.29:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.30:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-4321	Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.09945.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secniche.org/gcrds.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4339
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496688/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31375
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45403
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6554

History

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Subscriptions

Google Chrome

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-09-30T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:08:35.061Z

Reserved: 2008-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4340

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-09-30T17:22:09.460

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4340

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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