Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in the ChildProcessSecurityPolicy::CanRequestURL function in browser/child_process_security_policy.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a URL that specifies multiple protocols, as demonstrated by a URL that begins with many repetitions of the view-source: substring.
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31517
- 1023506 vdb-entry
- http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14097 vdb-entry signature
- http://twitter.com/akirsanov/statuses/7370288490
- http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html