WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32,...

Vulnerability Description

WebKit before r50173, as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method, which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
• http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833
• http://codereview.chromium.org/339039
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54297
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311
• http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310
• http://www.osvdb.org/59745