Google Chrome Style Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 @ 01:28:33 CDT in Security
by Raven

Google Chrome Style Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA43748

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/43748/

CRITICALITY: Highly Critical

RELEASE DATE: 2011-03-16

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error related to the style handling and can be exploited to corrupt memory. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 10.0.648.133.

SOLUTION: Update to version 10.0.648.133.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf Philipp Weinmann, and Willem Pinckaers via ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/stable-and-beta-channel-updates.html