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CVE-2010-1770

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, Apple Safari before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, and Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 does not properly handle a transformation of a text node that has the IBM1147 character set, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document containing a BR element, related to a "type checking issue."

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 4.0.5
• Apple Webkit: all versions
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 9.10, 10.04, 10.04.4, 10.10
• Google Chrome: before 5.0.375.70 — fixed in 5.0.375.70
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 10-sp3, 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 10-sp3, 11-sp1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 5.0.375.70. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=43487
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Sep/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40072
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40105
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40196
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41856
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42314

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