Vulnerability CVE-2009-3933
Published: 2009-11-12   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method, which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Webkit -> Webkit 

 References:
http://codereview.chromium.org/339039
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/54297
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
http://www.osvdb.org/59745
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892
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