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CVE-2010-1772

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in page/Geolocation.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r59859, as used in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted web site, related to failure to stop timers associated with geolocation upon deletion of a document.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 12, 13
• Google Chrome: before 5.0.375.70 — fixed in 5.0.375.70
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

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=44868
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044023.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044031.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40072
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40557
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41856
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
• http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59859
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1

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