Google Chrome 19.0.1084.45 GTK Omnibox resource management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Google Chrome 19.0.1084.45 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component GTK Omnibox. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 19.0.1084.46 on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging an error in the GTK implementation of the omnibox.

The weakness was disclosed 05/15/2012 by Arthur Gerkis (psaldorn) with Chromium Development Community as 123530 as confirmed knowledge base article (Website). The advisory is available at code.google.com. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with the vendor. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-3096 since 08/09/2011. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a private exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 59103 (FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (1449af37-9eba-11e1-b9c1-00262d5ed8ee)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165306 (SUSE Security Update for Update for Chromium, v8 (openSUSE-SU-2012:0656-1)).

Upgrading to version 19.0.1084.46 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at chrome.google.com. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at src.chromium.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (75601) and Tenable (59103). The entries 5400, 5401, 5403 and 5405 are pretty similar.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 59103
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (1449af37-9eba-11e1-b9c1-00262d5ed8ee)
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OpenVAS ID: 71375
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: chromium
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Upgrade: Chrome 19.0.1084.46
Patch: src.chromium.org

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Vendor: google.com
Product: google.com

Advisory: 123530
Researcher: Arthur Gerkis (psaldorn)
Organization: Chromium Development Community
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2011-3096 (🔍)
X-Force: 75601
SecurityTracker: 1027067 - Google Chrome Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
Vulnerability Center: 35106 - Google Chrome Before 19.0.1084.46 on Linux Use-After-Free Vulnerability Remote DoS Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 53540 - Google Chrome Prior to 19 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 49194 - Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 81958

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 05/23/2012 17:06
Updated: 03/24/2021 16:24
Changes: 05/23/2012 17:06 (84), 04/12/2017 11:25 (10), 03/24/2021 16:24 (3)
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