A vulnerability has been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when parsing floating point numbers. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code in the Google Chrome sandbox.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.0.195.24.

Solution
Update to version 3.0.195.24.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor. Originally reported in libc by Maksymilian Arciemowicz of SecurityReason.

Original Advisory
Google:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/09/stable-channel-update_30.html

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