SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA47694

VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/47694/

RELEASE DATE: 2012-01-24

CRITICALITY: Highly Critical

DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. 1) A use-after-free error exists within the handling of DOM selections.
2) A use-after-free error exists within the DOM handling.
3) An uninitialised value exists within Skia.
4) An error within the tree builder can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

SOLUTION: Update to version 16.0.912.77.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: The vendor credits:
1, 4) Arthur Gerkis
2) wushi of team509 via ZDI
3) miaubiz

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/01/stable-channel-update_23.html