vulnwire
4.3med

CVE-2008-70611 exploit

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…

Published 17 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.3
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
4.3%
percentile 91%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

4.26% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-32311 Google Chrome 0.2.149 - Malformed 'title' Tag Remote Denial of Service · dos · 2008-09-02

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds
Google Chrome (RSS, critical only)

References

  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496101/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496151/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/30975 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496172/100/100/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496094/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/45039 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496078/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496146/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496138/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • googlechromereleases.blogspot.com /2008/09/beta-release-0214930.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • src.chromium.org /viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/views/tooltip_manager.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev=2042 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496145/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • blackhat.org.il /exploits/chrome-freeze-exploit.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • src.chromium.org /viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=2042 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/496126/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • src.chromium.org /viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/render_widget_host_hwnd.cc?r1=1287&r2=2042&pathrev · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.