CVE-2010-4494

Public Exploit

Description

Double free vulnerability in libxml2 2.7.8 and other versions, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 2.37% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory google.com Vendor Advisory blogspot.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
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References

Link Tags
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:260 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/40775 third party advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4564 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3336 third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0230 third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2137 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566 broken link
http://secunia.com/advisories/42721 third party advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2010-4008_CVE-2010-4494.html third party advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055775.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00003.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42472 third party advisory
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63444 patch exploit vendor advisory issue tracking
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11916 signature third party advisory vdb entry
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554 third party advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42762 third party advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3319 third party advisory vdb entry
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html vendor advisory
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581 third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2010-4494?
CVE-2010-4494 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2010-4494?
To fix CVE-2010-4494, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2010-4494 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2010-4494 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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