Description
The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
- 43068 third-party-advisory
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833
- ADV-2011-0212 vdb-entry
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231
- 1023506 vdb-entry
- http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566
- SUSE-SR:2011:002 vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14079 vdb-entry signature