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Google Chrome WebKit Memory Corruption and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 11 Jun 2009 5351 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by attackers to disclose sensitive information or compromise an affected system.

1. An error in WebKit when handling recursion in certain DOM event handlers can be exploited to corrupt memory and potentially execute arbitrary code.

2. An error in WebKit when handling drag events can be exploited to disclose sensitive information when content is dragged over a malicious web page.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution
  • Information Disclosure

System / Technologies affected

  • Google Chrome versions prior to 2.0.172.31

Solutions

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