Friday, December 30, 2011

Google Chrome Web Browser Security


Since its launch three years ago, google chrome as one of the web browser service has shown a very rapid progress. Comfort, stability and security has become an important factor that makes this browser to be one competitor who won seats on the three highest order for the most widely used browser instead of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Although quite young, but Google chrome seems to be very serious in maintaining and improving the security of the system. Chrome also always give credit to the researchers who discovered the weaknesses in the browser to fix it and then continue on in perfected.

Recently a security researcher Christian Holler system found defects / weaknesses Out-of-bounds Writing in Chrome v8 JavaScript Engine, which means that the system can perform the writing process in place where it should be used to write. This can be exploited by attackers to execute code / program illegally.

This discovery by Christian Holler get from Google's award of $ 1000. Even this weakness in the follow up directly with improvements later in the launch in v8 JavaScript Engine version 3.5.10.24.

If at that 15.0.874.120 stable version of Chrome was released on 10 November, google fix seven flaws in the system, so now Google has released Chrome as well 15.0.874.121 Stable version for the Windows platform, Mac and Linux. This update is an improvement over previous versions of weakness identified as CVE-2011-3900 and includes high-impact defects against unauthorized activity. It is not common in the browser service that directly release the latest version with just a single fix vulnerabilities in JavaScript, but google proved to be very active attention and gave a positive response to weaknesses in browsers.

Since its launch three years ago, google chrome as one of the web browser service has shown a very rapid progress. Comfort, stability and security has become an important factor that makes this browser to be one competitor who won seats on the three highest order for the most widely used browser instead of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Although quite young, but Google chrome seems to be very serious in maintaining and improving the security of the system. Chrome also always give credit to the researchers who discovered the weaknesses in the browser to fix it and then continue on in perfected.

Recently a security researcher Christian Holler system found defects / weaknesses Out-of-bounds Writing in Chrome v8 JavaScript Engine, which means that the system can perform the writing process in place where it should be used to write. This can be exploited by attackers to execute code / program illegally.

This discovery by Christian Holler get from Google's award of $ 1000. Even this weakness in the follow up directly with improvements later in the launch in v8 JavaScript Engine version 3.5.10.24.

If at that 15.0.874.120 stable version of Chrome was released on 10 November, google fix seven flaws in the system, so now Google has released Chrome as well 15.0.874.121 Stable version for the Windows platform, Mac and Linux. This update is an improvement over previous versions of weakness identified as CVE-2011-3900 and includes high-impact defects against unauthorized activity. It is not common in the browser service that directly release the latest version with just a single fix vulnerabilities in JavaScript, but google proved to be very active attention and gave a positive response to weaknesses in browsers.

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