Google Chrome and Chrome OS Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
RISK: Medium Risk
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome and Chrome OS, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by input validation errors, invalid and dangling pointers, and memory corruptions related to extensions notification handling, node iteration, multi-page PDFs printing, CSS and canvas or cursors, PDF page handling, video frame sizes, SVG, rogue extensions, Vorbis decoder, PDF shading, anchor and video handling, DOM node removal, and speech handling, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected browser or compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted web page.
Impact
- Denial of Service
- Remote Code Execution
System / Technologies affected
- Google Chrome versions prior to 8.0.552.237
- Google Chrome OS versions prior to 8.0.552.334
Solutions
Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.
- Google Chrome - Upgrade to version 8.0.552.237
- Google Chrome OS - Upgrade to version 8.0.552.334
Vulnerability Identifier
- No CVE information is available
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