CVE-2008-6998

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 9.7%

exploitation probability

9.7%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Stack-based buffer overflow in chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc in Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 and other versions before 0.2.149.29 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a link target (href attribute) with a large number of path elements, which triggers the overflow when the status bar is updated after the user hovers over the link.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214929.html http://osvdb.org/48264 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44934 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45032 http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/chrome.html http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/chrome_official_branch/src/chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc?r1=1774&r2=1797&pathrev=1797 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6372 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31034 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31071