What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-0779

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.84 does not properly handle a missing key in an extension, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted extension.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• Google Chrome: before 9.0.597.84 — fixed in 9.0.597.84

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 9.0.597.84. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62791
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/stable-channel-update.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43782
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2192
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0671
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14540
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62791
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/stable-channel-update.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43782
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2192
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0671
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14540

Get alerted when CVE-2011-0779 or the next vulnerability affects your stack