CVE-2013-6623

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: none known
Published: 2013-11-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The SVG implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.48, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by leveraging the use of tree order, rather than transitive dependency order, for layout.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 31.0.1650.47; 31.0.1650.0, 31.0.1650.2, 31.0.1650.3, 31.0.1650.4, 31.0.1650.5, 31.0.1650.6 (+37)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00042.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2799
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=282925
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19311
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=158480&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/11/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00026.html

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