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Google Chrome 'IFRAME' Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
3 years ago
Summary
This host is installed with Google Chrome and is prone to Denial Of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to: - Improper handling of an 'IFRAME' element with a mailto: URL in its 'SRC' attribute, which allows remote attackers to consume resources via an HTML document with many 'IFRAME' elements. - JavaScript code, containing an infinite loop which creates 'IFRAME' elements for invalid 'news:// URIs'.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Google Chrome version 1.0.154.48 and prior.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Google Chrome version 6.0 or later.