CVE-2010-2300

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Element::normalizeAttributes function in dom/Element.cpp in WebCore in WebKit in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to handlers for DOM mutation events, aka rdar problem 7948784. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-1759.

Affected products

Google Chrome: before 5.0.375.70 — fixed in 5.0.375.70

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=43315
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40072
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11357
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=43315
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40072
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

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