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CVE-2010-1823

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit before r65958, as used in Google Chrome before 6.0.472.59, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger use of document APIs such as document.close during parsing, as demonstrated by a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file referencing an invalid SVG font, aka rdar problem 8442098.

Affected products

• Apple iTunes for Windows: before 10.5 — fixed in 10.5
• Apple Safari: before 5.0.6 — fixed in 5.0.6
• Google Chrome: before 6.0.472.59 — fixed in 6.0.472.59

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apple iTunes for Windows 10.5; Apple Safari 5.0.6; Google Chrome 6.0.472.59. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50250
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/09/stable-beta-channel-updates_14.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4808
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4981
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43055
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44533
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7405

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