CVE-2009-2578 (GCVE-0-2009-2578)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-22 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:59
VLAI
Summary
Google Chrome 2.x through 2.0.172 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2009-07-19 00:00
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