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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2011-2875

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163, does not properly perform object sealing, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that leverage "type confusion."

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
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CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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