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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2011.0084
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
5 October 2011
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Google Chrome
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2011-3873 CVE-2011-2881 CVE-2011-2880
CVE-2011-2879 CVE-2011-2878 CVE-2011-2877
CVE-2011-2876
Member content until: Friday, November 4 2011
OVERVIEW
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
prior to version 14.0.835.202. [1]
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following details regarding these
vulnerabilities:
"[$1000] [93788] High CVE-2011-2876: Use-after-free in text line box handling. Credit to miaubiz.
[$1000] [95072] High CVE-2011-2877: Stale font in SVG text handling. Credit to miaubiz.
[$2000] [95671] High CVE-2011-2878: Inappropriate cross-origin access to the window prototype. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
[96150] High CVE-2011-2879: Lifetime and threading issues in audio node handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
[$4500] [97451] [97520] [97615] High CVE-2011-2880: Use-after-free in the v8 bindings. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
[$1500] [97784] High CVE-2011-2881: Memory corruption with v8 hidden objects. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
[98089] Critical CVE-2011-3873: Memory corruption in shader translator. Credit to Zhenyao Mo of the Chromium development community." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends upgrading to the latest version of Google Chrome
to correct these issues. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] Stable Channel Update
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/10/stable-channel-update.html
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