CVE-2010-4203

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

WebM libvpx (aka the VP8 Codec SDK) before 0.9.5, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via invalid frames.

Affected products

Google Chrome: before 7.0.517.44 — fixed in 7.0.517.44
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
Chromium libvpx: before 0.9.5 — fixed in 0.9.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 7.0.517.44; Chromium libvpx 0.9.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60055
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://review.webmproject.org/gitweb?p=libvpx.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGELOG
http://review.webmproject.org/gitweb?p=libvpx.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=09bcc1f710ea65dc158639479288fb1908ff0c53
http://secunia.com/advisories/42109
http://secunia.com/advisories/42118
http://secunia.com/advisories/42690
http://secunia.com/advisories/42908
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-03.xml
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0115
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12198
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0999.html

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