CVE-2010-0659

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.

Affected products

Apple Webkit: through r53524
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 (+41)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14079
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html

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