CVE-2008-4340

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Google Chrome: 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30

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
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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