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Google Chrome v8 Engine Floating Point Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 2 Oct 2009 5513 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability has been identified in Google Chrome, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error in the v8 engine when parsing strings into floating point numbers via the "dtoa()" implementation, which could allow remote attackers to crash an affected browser or execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Google Chrome versions prior to 3.0.195.24

Solutions

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