Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

Posted by Support @ Whaddya.com on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 0 comments

After just a few hours of launching Google Chrome beta internet browser, here's a quick discovery of it's vulnerability through webkit and java bug.


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Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.

Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.


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