Stack consumption vulnerability in the ChildProcessSecurityPolicy::CanRequestURL function in browser/child_process_security_policy.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a URL that specifies multiple protocols, as demonstrated by a URL that begins with many repetitions of the view-source: substring.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0664
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14097
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31517
• http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
• http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
• http://twitter.com/akirsanov/statuses/7370288490