Upstream information

CVE-2010-1770 at MITRE

Description

WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, Apple Safari before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, and Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 does not properly handle a transformation of a text node that has the IBM1147 character set, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document containing a BR element, related to a "type checking issue."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 601349 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX], 622994 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

  • SUSE-SR:2010:015, published Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000
  • SUSE-SR:2011:002, published Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000
    • openSUSE-SU-2010:0458-1 openSUSE-SU-2011:0024-1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 07:27:31 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:16:20 2025