CVE-2010-4574

The Pickle::Pickle function in base/pickle.cc in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224 and Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343 on 64-bit Linux platforms does not properly perform pointer arithmetic, which allows remote attackers to bypass message deserialization validation, and cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact, via invalid pickle data.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56449
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42648
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev\u0026revision=68033
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45390
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14141
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56449
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates_13.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42648
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev\u0026revision=68033
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201012-01.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45390
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14141