CVE-2008-6997 (GCVE-0-2008-6997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-18 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:49
VLAI?
Summary
Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an IMG tag with a long src attribute, which triggers the crash when the victim performs an "Inspect Element" action.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public ?
2008-09-05 00:00
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