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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2013.0009
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
24 January 2013
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Google Chrome
Operating System: Windows
Linux variants
OS X
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-2013-0843 CVE-2013-0842 CVE-2013-0841
CVE-2013-0840 CVE-2013-0839
Member content until: Saturday, February 23 2013
OVERVIEW
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Google Chrome
prior to version 24.0.1312.56.
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following details regarding these issues:
"[$1000] [151008] High CVE-2013-0839: Use-after-free in canvas font
handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[170532] Medium CVE-2013-0840: Missing URL validation when opening new
windows.
[169770] High CVE-2013-0841: Unchecked array index in content blocking.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
[166867] Medium CVE-2013-0842: Problems with NULL characters embedded
in paths. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jri Aedla).
[Mac only] [166523] High CVE-2013-0843: Crash with unsupported RTC
sampling rate. Credit to Ted Nakamura of the Chromium development
community." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends updating to the latest version of Google Chrome
to correct these vulnerabilities. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] Stable Channel Update
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.nl/search/label/Stable%20updates
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