CVE-2008-7061
The tooltip manager (chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc) in Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 Build 1798 and possibly other versions before 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a tag with a long title attribute, which is not properly handled when displaying a tooltip, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-6994. NOTE: there is inconsistent information about the environments under which this issue exists.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 4.3% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-7020)
- Published
- August 24, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-7020 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-0214930.html
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/render_widget_host_hwnd.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042(Exploit, Patch)
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042(Exploit, Patch)
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=2042
- http://www.blackhat.org.il/exploits/chrome-freeze-exploit.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496078/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496094/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496101/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496126/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496138/100/0/threaded(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496145/100/0/threaded(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496146/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496151/100/0/threaded(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496172/100/100/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30975(Exploit)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45039
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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