CVE-2011-3083

CVE-2011-3083 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 19.0.1084.46. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the browser by presenting a malformed FTP URL within the SRC attribute of a VIDEO element on a crafted web page, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, resulting in a partial impact on availability (application crash). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, suggesting low current attention to this older vulnerability.