Google Chrome: Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction

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                         AUSCERT Security Bulletin

                               ASB-2011.0026
                   Google Chrome updated to 10.0.648.204
                               25 March 2011

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              Google Chrome
Operating System:     Windows
                      UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact/Access:        Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution:           Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:            CVE-2011-1296 CVE-2011-1295 CVE-2011-1294
                      CVE-2011-1293 CVE-2011-1292 CVE-2011-1291
Member content until: Sunday, April 24 2011

OVERVIEW

        Google has released an update to Chrome that corrects several 
        vulnerabilities that are rated high.


IMPACT

        Google have listed the following security vulnerabilities as being
        corrected in this release:
        
          [$500] [72517] High CVE-2011-1291: Buffer error in base string 
          handling. Credit to Alex Turpin. [1]
        
          [$1000] [73216] High CVE-2011-1292:Use-after-free in the frame 
          loader. Credit to Slawomir Blazek. [1]
        
          [$2000] [73595] High CVE-2011-1293: Use-after-free in 
          HTMLCollection. Credit to Sergey Glazunov. [1]
        
          [$1500] [74562] High CVE-2011-1294: Stale pointer in CSS handling. 
          Credit to Sergey Glazunov. [1]
        
          [$2000] [74991] High CVE-2011-1295: DOM tree corruption with broken
          node parentage. Credit to Sergey Glazunov. [1]
        
          [$1500] [75170] High CVE-2011-1296: Stale pointer in SVG text 
          handling. Credit to Sergey Glazunov. [1]
        
        Google has not released the specific impacts of these vulnerabilities.


MITIGATION

        It is recommmended that you update your Google Chrome installation
        as soon as possible. 


REFERENCES

        [1] Google Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update
            http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/stable-channel-update.html

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