SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA49194

VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/49194/

RELEASE DATE: 2012-05-16

CRITICALITY: Highly Critical

DESCRIPTION: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, and compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 19.0.1084.46.


1) An error exists when loading links from internal pages.
2) A UI corruption error exists with long autofilled values.
3) A use-after-free error exists with style element.
4) An unspecified error exists related to incorrect window navigation.
5) An out-of-bounds read error exists in the hairline drawing.
6) A use-after-free error exists in table handling.
7) A race condition exists in workers.
8) A use-after-free error exists with indexed DB.
9) An invalid write error exists in the v8 regex engine.
10) An out-of-bounds read error exists in glyph handling.
11) An out-of-bounds read error exists in Tibetan handling.
12) An out-of-bounds write error exists in the OGG container.
13) A use-after-free error exists in GTK omnibox handling.
14) An out-of-bounds write error exists in sampled functions with PDF.
15) A bad search path error exists for Windows Media Player plug-in.
16) A use-after-free error exists in PDF with corrupt font encoding name.
17) An out-of-bounds read error exists in drawing dash paths.
18) An unspecified error related to a Nvidia driver bug.
19) An off-by-one write error exists in libxml.

SOLUTION: Upgrade to version 19.0.1084.46.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: The vendor credits:
1) Brett Wilson of the Chromium development community.
2) psaldorn.
3, 7, 13) Arthur Gerkis.
4) Charlie Reis of the Chromium development community.
5, 18) Aki Helin, OUSPG.
6, 10, 11) miaubiz.
8, 17) Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
9) Christian Holler.
12) Hannu Heikkinen.
14) Kostya Serebryany of Google and Evgeniy Stepanov of Google.
15) Haifei Li of Microsoft and MSVR (MSVR:159).
16) Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team and Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
19) Jüri Aedla.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/05/stable-channel-update.html