CVE-2008-6998
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 9.7% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-6957)
- Published
- August 19, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-6957 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- google / chrome
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214929.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/48264
- http://shinnok.evonet.ro/vulns_html/chrome.html(Exploit)
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/chrome_official_branch/src/chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc?r1=1774&r2=1797&pathrev=1797(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31034(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31071(Exploit)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44934
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45032
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6372
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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