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CVE-2010-4577 Detail

Description

The CSSParser::parseFontFaceSrc function in WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224, Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products does not properly parse Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted local font, related to "Type Confusion."


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63866 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Issue Tracking  Mailing List 
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html CVE, MITRE Release Notes 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42648 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72685/trunk/WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45722 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49883 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667025 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13953 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') cwe source acceptance level NIST   CISA-ADP  
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read cwe source acceptance level NIST   CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4577
NVD Published Date:
12/21/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE