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CVE-2011-2841 (GCVE-0-2011-2841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-09-17 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
VLAI
Summary
Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly perform garbage collection during the processing of PDF documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/09/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?i… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://osvdb.org/75541 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8411 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17929/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Date Public
2011-09-16 00:00
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