Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-4198

Title: Webkitgtk Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-4198.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 06, 2010

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-4198: WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, 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.

Impacted Vendors

webkitgtk 1

techland 1

google 1

Reference Links

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42109 http://secunia.com/advisories/43086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12157 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42109 http://secunia.com/advisories/43086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12157

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-4198 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 06, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.