CVE-2010-1992 (GCVE-0-2010-1992)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-05-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:17
VLAI
Summary
Google Chrome 1.0.154.48 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2010-05-18 00:00
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