National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2900
Original release date:10/09/2012
Last revised:10/09/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 22.0.1229.92, does not properly render text, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138208
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/10/stable-channel-update.html
Type: Advisory