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CVE-2010-4494

Double Free

Published: Dec 07, 2010 | Modified: Jul 31, 2020
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4494
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

Double free vulnerability in libxml2 2.7.8 and other versions, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 8.0.552.215 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat libxml2-0:2.7.6-4.el6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat mingw32-libxml2-0:2.7.6-6.el6_3 *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu devel *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu lucid *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu maverick *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References

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