CVE-2008-6997: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an IMG tag with a long src attribute, which triggers the crash when the victim performs an "Inspect Element" action.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: version 0.2.149.27 only

Published 2009-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.