[PCWorks] Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 06:08:35 -0600
TITLE:
Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities
Criticality level: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Software: Google Chrome 16.x
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
http://secunia.com/advisories/47449/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a
user's system.
1) A use-after-free error exists within the handling of
animation
frames.
2) A boundary error within the "xmlStringLenDecodeEntities()"
function (parser.c) of libxml2 can be exploited to cause a
heap-based
buffer overflow.
3) An error within the glyph handling can be exploited to cause
a
stack-based buffer overflow.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 16.0.912.75.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/01/stable-channel-update.html
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