Description
Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Google Chrome - Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion EDB-6554 · dos · Sep 24, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 4339 third-party-advisory
- 6554 exploit
- google-chrome-carriagereturn-dos(45403) vdb-entry
- http://secniche.org/gcrds.html
- 31375 vdb-entry
- 20080924 Advisory : Google Chrome Carriage Return Null Object Memory Exhaustion Remote Dos. mailing-list