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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2011.0044
Google has released an update to Chrome
27 May 2011
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Google Chrome
Operating System: Mac OS X
Windows
Linux variants
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Unknown/Unspecified
Unauthorised Access -- Unknown/Unspecified
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2011-1807 CVE-2011-1806 CVE-2011-1804
CVE-2011-1801
Member content until: Sunday, June 26 2011
OVERVIEW
Google has released an update to Chrome prior to version 11.0.696.71
which corrects several vulnerabilities.
IMPACT
Google have listed the following security vulnerabilities as being
corrected in this release:
"[72189] Low CVE-2011-1801: Pop-up blocker bypass. Credit to Chamal De
Silva.
[$1000] [82546] High CVE-2011-1804: Stale pointer in floats rendering.
Credit to Martin Barbella.
[82873] Critical CVE-2011-1806: Memory corruption in GPU command
buffer. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
[82903] Critical CVE-2011-1807: Out-of-bounds write in blob handling.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno) and Kostya Serebryany
of the Chromium development community." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends updating to the latest version of Google
Chrome. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] Stable Channel Update
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/05/stable-channel-update_24.html
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