CVE-2011-2849

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The WebSockets implementation in Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Google Chrome: before 14.0.835.163 — fixed in 14.0.835.163

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 14.0.835.163. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89795
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/09/stable-channel-update_16.html
http://osvdb.org/75549
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69875
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14047
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=89795
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/09/stable-channel-update_16.html
http://osvdb.org/75549
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69875
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14047

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