CVE-2008-6998

Name	CVE-2008-6998
Description	Stack-based buffer overflow in chrome/common/gfx/url_elider.cc in Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 and other versions before 0.2.149.29 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a link target (href attribute) with a large number of path elements, which triggers the overflow when the status bar is updated after the user hovers over the link.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
chromium-browser (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
chromium-browser	source	(unstable)	(not affected)
webkit	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- chromium-browser <not-affected> (Only 0.x is affected)
- webkit <not-affected> (chrome-specific issue)