Chrome Security Flaws

September 4, 2008 By Digital Trends Staff

It's barely out of the box, but security researchers have already found problems with Google's Chrome browser.

You could say Google’s Chrome browser is a hit, capturing 1% of the market in its first day, but security researchers have already been all over it, searching for flaws – and they’ve found a couple.

According to Vnunet, yesterday researcher Avi Raff discovered that Chrome is vulnerable to the same kind of carpet bombing attack that could have hit Safari. Apple patched that, but since Chrome is based in part of the same WebKit software from Apple, the flaw is there.

That was quickly followed by another discovery. Chrome’s URL bar can expose a vulnerability it the chromium.dll component which could be targeted to cause the application to crash.

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Micheal Sesay at 12:25pm 4th September 2008 I started using this application the day after it was lunched, I can say it is a fast application, though it lacks many features. My question now is why did Google rush to lunch this application very fast and forger to check for any problems that will make the application to crash or for any vulnerability or did not check properly? And what can users like me do to solve this problem?