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CVE-2011-3966 (GCVE-0-2011-3966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-02-09 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:53
VLAI
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.46 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to error handling for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token-sequence data.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2012-02-08 00:00
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