Description
Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly perform garbage collection during the processing of PDF documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.
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 < 14.0.835.163 - '.pdf' File Handling Memory Corruption EDB-17929 · dos · Oct 4, 2011 · verified
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References
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14019 vdb-entry signature
- chrome-garbage-dos(69868) vdb-entry
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/09/stable-channel-update_16.html
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78639
- 75541 vdb-entry
- 8411 third-party-advisory
- 17929 exploit