CVE-2012-2849

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: 2012-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the GIF decoder in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted image.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 21.0.1180.56; through 21.0.1180.59; 21.0.1180.0, 21.0.1180.1, 21.0.1180.2, 21.0.1180.31, 21.0.1180.32, 21.0.1180.33 (+19)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128163
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15653
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128163
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15653

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