Description
WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, does not properly handle large text areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.
Published: 2010-11-05
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

Additional remediation guidance may be available on OpenCVE Cloud.

Tracking

Sign in to view the affected projects.

Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-4172 WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, does not properly handle large text areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1195-1 WebKit vulnerabilities
History

No history.

Subscriptions

Fedoraproject Fedora
Google Chrome
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Webkitgtk Webkitgtk
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:34:37.683Z

Reserved: 2010-11-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-4198

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-11-06T00:00:02.827

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-4198

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-11-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-4198 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses