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Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

18 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/google-chrome-vulnerable-to-carpet-bombing-flaw.97037/

Gigacore
Gigacore Original post #1
Sep 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.

Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.


Raff has cooked up a harmless demo of the attack in action, showing how a Google Chrome users can be lured into downloading and launching a JAR (Java Archive) file that gets executed without warning.

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comp@ddict
Sep 3, 2008 at 10:13 PM
God damn, gotta uninstall it now!!!
D@rekills4
Sep 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM
LOL Google

LOL,
I thought that there is gonna some kind of flaw in it
plsoft
plsoft #4
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:09 PM
A child is vulnerable to a lot of diseases.
chesss
chesss #6
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:36 PM
A beta browser has a bug/flaw!!!
SHOCKING
:roll:
hellknight
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:40 PM
@comaddict.. jaise ki everyone is gonna steal some kinda high profile classified data from your computer..
abhinav_bipnesh
Sep 4, 2008 at 11:02 AM
guys i think we have to uninstall it or while downloading anything be carefull for the source.... :D
tarey_g
tarey_g #9
Sep 4, 2008 at 12:03 PM
@comaddict.. jaise ki everyone is gonna steal some kinda high profile classified data from your computer..

You can never know if someone is as secret agent.
M
mehulved #10
Sep 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM
A beta browser has a bug/flaw!!!
SHOCKING
:roll:
which software doesn't have a bug flaw?
Software is kept in beta state so that flaws are exposed. Or you mean that beta versions are flawless/bugless then develop bugs/flaws as they turn older?
Pat
Pat #11
Sep 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM
which software doesn't have a bug flaw?
Software is kept in beta state so that flaws are exposed. Or you mean that beta versions are flawless/bugless then develop bugs/flaws as they turn older?

I think it was a sarcastic comment by him.
chesss
chesss #13
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:19 PM
which software doesn't have a bug flaw?
Software is kept in beta state so that flaws are exposed. Or you mean that beta versions are flawless/bugless then develop bugs/flaws as they turn older?

Yes, I do mean beta software should be flawless :lol:
nvidia
nvidia #14
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:46 PM
lolz the technology section is flooded with Chrome threads.
Gigacore
Gigacore #15
Sep 4, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Chomania!!!
casanova
casanova #16
Sep 5, 2008 at 12:22 PM
And google products never come out of beta
Gmail beta, Gtalk beta, Orkut beta, ...., Google Chrome beta
comp@ddict
Sep 5, 2008 at 6:35 PM
And google products never come out of beta
Gmail beta, Gtalk beta, Orkut beta, ...., Google Chrome beta

Lolz rus, today's TOI holds an article on a similar topic which mentiones Google's beta fetish
T
Sep 5, 2008 at 6:49 PM
actually this is a beta version na.that's what,all the providers or software developers released the beta version.am i correct or not?