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CVE-2010-2302

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebCore in WebKit in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving remote fonts in conjunction with shadow DOM trees, aka rdar problem 8007953. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-1771.

Affected products

• 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=44740
• 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%3A11948
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44740
• 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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