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CVE-2008-4340 (GCVE-0-2008-4340)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-30 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:08
VLAI
Summary
Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4339 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6554 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secniche.org/gcrds.html x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31375 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496688/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2008-09-24 00:00
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