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TITLE:
Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45698

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-24

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DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, where
some have unknown impacts and others can can be exploited by
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and
potentially compromise a user's system.

1) An error related to the command line can lead to "URL parsing
confusion".

Note: This vulnerability affects the Windows platform only.

2) A use-after-free error exists within the handling of line boxes.

3) A use-after-free error exists within the handling of counter
nodes.

4) A use-after-free error exists within the handling of custom
fonts.

5) A double-free error exists within the libxml XPath handling.

6) An error related to empty origins can be exploited to violate the
cross-origin policy.

7) An error related to the vertex handing can be exploited to cause a
memory corruption.

Note: This vulnerability affects the Windows platform only.

8) A use-after-free error exists within the text searching.

9) An error within v8 can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds
write.

10) An integer overflow exists related uniform arrays.

Note: This vulnerability affects 32bit only.

11) An error exists related to "memset()" and PDF.

Note: This vulnerability affects the Linux platform only.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 13.0.782.215.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) Vladimir Vorontsov, ONsec company
2) SkyLined, Google Chrome Security Team and independently discovered
by miaubiz
3, 8) miaubiz
4) wushi, team509 via ZDI and independently discovered by miaubiz
5) Yang Dingning, NCNIPC Graduate University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences
6, 10) Sergey Glazunov
7) Michael Braithwaite, Turbulenz Limited
9) SkyLined, Google Chrome Security Team
11) Aki Helin, OUSPG

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/08/stable-channel-update_22.html

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