Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to the handling of mouse dragging events.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html | mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12129 | vdb entry third party advisory signature |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/42472 | third party advisory |
| http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63051 | exploit vendor advisory |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2188 | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html | vendor advisory |