CVE-2010-4197
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving text editing.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-416
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4171)
- Published
- November 6, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4171 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- google / chrome
- webkitgtk / webkitgtk
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51602(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42109(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43086(Broken Link)
- http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/70594(Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039(Broken Link)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45720(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48349(Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656115(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12266(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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