CVE-2010-0664

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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

Stack consumption vulnerability in the ChildProcessSecurityPolicy::CanRequestURL function in browser/child_process_security_policy.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a URL that specifies multiple protocols, as demonstrated by a URL that begins with many repetitions of the view-source: substring.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 4.0.249.0; 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=31517
http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
http://twitter.com/akirsanov/statuses/7370288490
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14097
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31517
http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs

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