CVE-2010-4198

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, does not properly handle large text areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 13
Google Chrome: before 7.0.517.44 — fixed in 7.0.517.44
Webkit: 1.2.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 7.0.517.44. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42109
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118

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