CVE-2011-3878 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Race condition in Google Chrome before 15.0.874.102 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to worker process initialization.

Published: 2011-10-25

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very 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 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2011-3832	Race condition in Google Chrome before 15.0.874.102 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to worker process initialization.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00516.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94487
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/10/chrome-stable-release.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70956
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12811

History

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Subscriptions

Google Chrome

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2011-10-25T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:53:31.522Z

Reserved: 2011-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-3878

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-10-25T19:55:01.260

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

Link: CVE-2011-3878

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-362

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