Thursday, September 04, 2008

All softwares crash one day...

... and so does Google Chrome. In an article on the Securiteam site, Rishi Narang from Evilfingers says a crash can occur without user interaction. If a user is provided a malicious link with an undefined handler followed by a special character, Chrome crashes...

You can read more details at http://evilfingers.com/advisory/google_chrome_poc.php. There is a demo link on the page. If you click on it, chrome crashes (and with all tabs).