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CVE-2008-6998

N/A

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc in Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 and other versions before 0.2.149.29 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a link target (href attribute) with a large number of path elements, which triggers the overflow when the status bar is updated after the user hovers over the link.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/19/2009

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

google:chrome

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214929.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://osvdb.org/48264(cve@mitre.org)

http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/chrome.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/chrome_official_branch/src/chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc?r1=1774&r2=1797&pathrev=1797(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31034(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31071(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44934(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45032(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6372(cve@mitre.org)

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214929.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://osvdb.org/48264(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/chrome.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/chrome_official_branch/src/chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc?r1=1774&r2=1797&pathrev=1797(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31034(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31071(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44934(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45032(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6372(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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