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Secunia Advisory SA50954

Google Chrome Two Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA50954
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2012-10-11
Last Update 2012-10-22
   
Popularity 2,747 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Security Bypass
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Google Chrome 22.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2012-5112 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-5376 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user's system.

1) A use-after-free error in Webkit's SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) functionality can be exploited to dereference already freed memory.

2) An unspecified error in the IPC (Inter-Process Communication) layer can be exploited to write arbitrary files and escape the Chrome sandbox.


Solution
Update to version 22.0.1229.94.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Pinkie Pie.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Google:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/10/stable-channel-update_6105.html

Pwnium 2 results and wrap-up:
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/10/pwnium-2-results-and-wrap-up_10.html

Deep Links
Links available to Secunia VIM customers


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