Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-4198 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-4198 Status: Candidate URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4198 [Open URL] Assigned: 20101105 Reference: CONFIRM:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257 Reference: CONFIRM:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html

Upstream Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/showbug.cgi?id=45611 Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/69801

Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44 does not properly handle large text areas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.