Description
The protocolIs function in platform/KURLGoogle.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r55822, as used in Google Chrome before 4.1.249.1036 and Flock Browser 3.x before 3.0.0.4112, does not properly handle whitespace at the beginning of a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted javascript: URL, as demonstrated by a \x00javascript:alert sequence.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 ↗
- http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=41244 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14067 ↗
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/stable-channel-update.html ↗
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35948 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html ↗
- http://flock.com/security/ ↗
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37383 ↗
- http://codereview.chromium.org/858001 ↗