CVE-2008-4340 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Google Chrome versions 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30. Remote attackers can trigger excessive memory consumption by crafting an HTML document that passes a carriage return sequence to the window.open function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.2.149.29CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.149.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.