SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA43859

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/43859/59

CRITICALITY: Highly Critical

RELEASE DATE: 2011-03-26

DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 10.0.648.204.
1) An unspecified buffer error exists in the handling of base strings.
2) A use-after-free error exists within the frame loader.
3) A use-after-free error exists within HTMLCollection.
4) An error when handling CSS can lead to a stale pointer.
5) An error when handling broken node parentage can be exploited to corrupt the DOM tree.
6) An error within the handling of SVG text can lead to a stale pointer.

SOLUTION: Update to version 10.0.648.204.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: The vendor credits:
1) Alex Turpin.
2) Slawomir Blazek.
3-6) Sergey Glazunov.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/stable-channel-update.html