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Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 24 Aug 2011 12:22 Release Date: 24 Aug 2011 5346 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Browsers

TYPE: Browsers

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and potentially compromise a user's system.

  1. An error related to the command line can lead to "URL parsing confusion".

    Note: This vulnerability affects the Windows platform only.

  2. A use-after-free error exists within the handling of line boxes, counter nodes and custom fonts, and text searching.
  3. A double-free error exists within the libxml XPath handling.
  4. An error related to empty origins can be exploited to violate the cross-origin policy.
  5. An error related to the vertex handing can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

    Note: This vulnerability affects the Windows platform only.

  6. An error within v8 can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds write.
  7. An integer overflow exists related uniform arrays.

    Note: This vulnerability affects 32bit only.

  8. An error exists related to "memset()" and PDF.

    Note: This vulnerability affects the Linux platform only.

 


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution
  • Security Restriction Bypass

System / Technologies affected

  • Google Chrome 13.x

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

  • Update to version 13.0.782.215.

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