Description
WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method, which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.
References
- 43068 third-party-advisory
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html
- ADV-2011-0212 vdb-entry
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833
- http://codereview.chromium.org/339039
- googlechrome-webkit-dos(54297) vdb-entry
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892
- SUSE-SR:2011:002 vendor-advisory
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310
- 59745 vdb-entry