CVE-2009-2955

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Google Chrome 1.0.154.48 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) via JavaScript code with a long string value for the hash property (aka location.hash), a related issue to CVE-2008-5715.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 1.0.154.48; 0.2.149.27, 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30, 0.2.152.1, 0.2.153.1, 0.3.154.0 (+10)

References

http://websecurity.com.ua/3424/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/3424/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506006/100/0/threaded

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