CVE-2010-0655

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the display of a blocked popup window during navigation to a different web site.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 4.0.249.78; 0.2.149.27, 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30, 0.2.152.1, 0.2.153.1, 0.3.154.0 (+40)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12523
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-65/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14069
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12523
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-65/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14069

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