CVE-2010-0659
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 3.2%EU EUVD
The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.
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-399
- EPSS score
- 3.2% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0690)
- Published
- February 18, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0690 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / webkit
- google / chrome
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References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html(Patch)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
- http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs(Vendor Advisory)
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14079
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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