CVE-2013-2878

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors related to the handling of text.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 28.0.1500.70; 28.0.1500.0, 28.0.1500.2, 28.0.1500.3, 28.0.1500.4, 28.0.1500.5, 28.0.1500.6 (+56)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177197
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17318
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177197
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17318

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