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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium-browser  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-CHROMIUMBROWSER-667427
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed24 Sept 2010
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Introduced: 24 Sep 2010

CVE-2010-1823  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit before r65958, as used in Google Chrome before 6.0.472.59, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger use of document APIs such as document.close during parsing, as demonstrated by a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file referencing an invalid SVG font, aka rdar problem 8442098.