CVE-2008-4340: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Google Chrome 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTML document containing a carriage return ("\r\n\r\n") argument to the window.open function.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: version 0.2.149.29 only; version 0.2.149.30 only

Published 2008-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.