CVE-2010-0659

The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.

Date published : 2010-02-18

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html