CVE-2010-4038: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Web Sockets implementation in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.41 does not properly handle a shutdown action, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 7.0.517.41 (fixed in 7.0.517.41)

Published 2010-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.