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World TOP Headlines: => Latest Security News & Alerts => Topic started by: georgecloner on 24. April 2009., 11:45:02
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Google released a new version of its Chrome browser Thursday to fix a high-severity security problem.
The problem affects Google's mainstream stable version of Chrome and is fixed in the new version 1.0.154.59 (http://download.cnet.com/Google-Chrome/3000-2356_4-10881381.html?tag=mncol;txt (http://download.cnet.com/Google-Chrome/3000-2356_4-10881381.html?tag=mncol;txt)). Google has built Chrome so it updates itself automatically with no user intervention, though the software must be restarted for the new version to run.
The security problem, reported April 8 by Roi Saltzman of the IBM Rational Application Security Research Group, allowed cross-site scripting attacks. Such methods can make a Web browser process unauthorized code such as JavaScript, enabling a variety of attacks, including impersonation or phishing.
Mark Larson, Google Chrome program manager, described the problem this way in a blog posting Thursday:
An error in handling URLs with a chromehtml: protocol could allow an attacker to run scripts of his choosing on any page or enumerate files on the local disk under certain conditions.
If a user has Google Chrome installed, visiting an attacker-controlled Web page in Internet Explorer could have caused Google Chrome to launch, open multiple tabs, and load scripts that run after navigating to a URL of the attacker's choice. Such an attack only works if Chrome is not already running.
{CNET}
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Hi
this version still Beta version or Stable release?
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Hi
this version still Beta version or Stable release?
As I see this is Stable...
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Use Opera instead! Its stable, safe and the best browser the world has ever seen!