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Google Chrome Fixes Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

"Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 has been released to the Stable and Beta channels. This release fixes a critical security issue and two other networking bugs.


CVE-2009-2121: Buffer overflow processing HTTP responsesGoogle Chrome is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in handling certain responses from HTTP servers. A specially crafted response from a server could crash the browser and possibly allow an attacker to run arbitrary code. 

More info
:  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14508 (This issue will be made public once a majority of users are up to date with the fix.)"

Read more: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/06/stable-beta-update-security-fix.html

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