CVE-2011-1042

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in flimflamd in flimflam in Google Chrome OS before 0.9.130.14 Beta allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by providing the name of a hidden WiFi network that does not respond to connection attempts.

Affected products

Google ChromeOS: through 0.9.126.0; 8.0.552.342, 8.0.552.343, 8.0.552.344

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=8871
http://codereview.chromium.org/5255012
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-os-beta-channel-update.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65556
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=8871
http://codereview.chromium.org/5255012
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-os-beta-channel-update.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65556

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