Vulnerability CVE-2008-4340
Published: 2008-09-30   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Google Chrome Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion Remote Dos.
Aditya K Sood
02.10.2008

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Google -> Chrome 

 References:
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
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