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Secunia Advisory SA38061

Google Chrome Stylesheet Redirection Information Disclosure

Secunia Advisory

SA38061

Release Date

2010-01-22

Last Update

2010-03-02

Popularity

11,493 views

Comments

2 comments

Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Google Chrome 3.x

Google Chrome 4.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-0315 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Cesar Cerrudo has discovered a vulnerability in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application following redirects for stylesheets and allowing to read the target URL. This can be exploited on sites that use redirects to URLs containing potentially sensitive information e.g. within the query string.

This is related to vulnerability #8 in:
SA28758

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.0.195.38 and 4.0.249.78. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 4.0.249.89.

Provided and/or discovered by
Cesar Cerrudo

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Cesar Cerrudo:
http://nomoreroot.blogspot.com/2010/01/little-bug-in-safari-and-google-chrome.html

Google Chrome:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/02/stable-channel-update.html
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32309

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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Subject: Google Chrome Stylesheet Redirection Information Disclosure

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palisade

RE: Google Chrome Stylesheet Redirection Information Disclosure

26th Feb, 2010 16:13

Score: 36
Posts: 16
User Since: 26th Feb 2010
System Score: N/A
Location: US
Last edited on 26th Feb, 2010 16:13

I have tested this exploit in Google Chrome 4.0.249.89 and it has no effect. I tested with microsoft.com, yahoo.com, planetquake.com and other websites. They all resolved to the original LINK tag and not the final URL. This problem seems to have been corrected.

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Rocketero

RE: Google Chrome Stylesheet Redirection Information Disclosure

2nd Mar, 2010 13:41

Score: 5
Posts: 1
User Since: 17th Feb 2010
System Score: N/A
Location: US
Last edited on 2nd Mar, 2010 13:41

According to the same link posted here above : (http://nomoreroot.blogspot.com/2010/01/little-bug-...) the issue was resolved a couple of weeks ago with Google Chrome 4.0.249.89

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Google Chrome Stylesheet Redirection Information Disclosure

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