CVE-2009-2556

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Google Chrome before 2.0.172.37 allows attackers to leverage renderer access to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger excessive memory allocation.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 2.0.172.33; 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30, 0.2.152.1, 0.2.153.1, 0.3.154.0, 0.3.154.3 (+21)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/07/stable-beta-update-bug-fixes.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35844
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35723
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1924
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51802
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/07/stable-beta-update-bug-fixes.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35844
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35723
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1924
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51802

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