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Google Chrome Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - January12 (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Google Chrome and is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
Multiple flaws are due to, - A use-after-free error when the handling of animation frames. - A boundary error within the 'xmlStringLenDecodeEntities()' function of libxml2 - A stack based buffer overflow error in glyph handling.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Google Chrome version prior to 16.0.912.75 on Linux
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to the Google Chrome 16.0.912.75 or later.