Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Vulnerability In Google Chrome

There has been found a vulnerability in Google Chrome -web browser:
CVE-2009-2121: Buffer overflow processing HTTP responses
Google Chrome is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in handling certain responses from HTTP servers. A specially crafted response from a server could crash the browser and possibly allow an attacker to run arbitrary code.


The vulnerability is categorized as critical and affects users of Google Chrome versions below 2.0.172.33. Users of vulnerable versions can update browser to patched version with in-built automatic updater or alternatively install new version from Google Chrome homepage.

More info here.

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