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Chromium Hack : special 13 character can crash Chrome Browser Tab on a Mac PC
TechWorm ^ | on March 21, 2015 | Vijay

Posted on 03/21/2015 7:36:39 PM PDT by Utilizer

No browsers are safe as proved yesterday at Pwn2Own, but crashing one of them with just one line of special code is slightly different. A developer has discovered a hack in Google Chrome which can crash the Chrome tab on a Mac PC.

The code is a 13 character special string which appears to be written in Assyrian script

*break*

Matt C has reported the bug to Google, who have marked the report as duplicate. This means that Google are aware of the problem and are reportedly working on it.

(Excerpt) Read more at techworm.net ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; applesux; chrome; computer; computing; cromium; internet; maccrap
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This is a special bug that works only in one particular configuration, but can be passed along using social media such as Twitter it appears.

Wonder if it would work as a posting here on FR...

1 posted on 03/21/2015 7:36:40 PM PDT by Utilizer
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To: Utilizer

Swordmaker, please pick up the rainbow-striped courtesy phone...


2 posted on 03/21/2015 7:41:30 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. Si se puede!)
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To: __rvx86; Swordmaker

Ummm ... you’ve got to ping him before he knows you’re calling ... :-) ...


3 posted on 03/21/2015 7:43:39 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: __rvx86

I’m certain it will match her flag outside. (ducks)


4 posted on 03/21/2015 7:44:02 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer
I was referring to Apple's old logo...nothing to do with the fags, er, LGBT+...
5 posted on 03/21/2015 7:46:19 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. Si se puede!)
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To: Star Traveler
Doesn't matter. She won't believe it, as all things apple are perfect and of course macmachinnes uber alles ist haer.
6 posted on 03/21/2015 7:46:48 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: __rvx86

Oh. My apologies. *grin*


7 posted on 03/21/2015 7:47:16 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

ive noted that when I get about 7o tabs going at once...a bunch of them go down....


8 posted on 03/21/2015 7:52:22 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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I don’t understand how this is a “hack” or how it shows that “No browsers are safe”.

It doesn’t display the page.

I can see it as a bug, but...


9 posted on 03/21/2015 7:53:31 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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I’ts a “hack” because some people have found a way to deliberately crash your machine, and it shows that no browsers are safe because to date it appears that there is no “perfect” browser out there as any of them can fail in one way or another.

(Just not so much on Opera, that is. So Far...)


10 posted on 03/21/2015 8:00:37 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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Did you take your pills today? ... because you’re not making any sense ... LOL ...


11 posted on 03/21/2015 8:00:49 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think that’s more of an available-memory problem, actually.


12 posted on 03/21/2015 8:01:28 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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Did you take your pills today?

I do not clearly recall. Why? Do you have any spares? *grin*

13 posted on 03/21/2015 8:03:40 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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Yes it is!

Running Adobe hotoshop, Lightoom.. Flash Professional.. Illustrator, and Dreamweaver and an whole slew of browsers can be a tad taxing,.

FR makes it easy to open one after another tab...and I just never seem to get around to closing them...in time..


14 posted on 03/21/2015 8:11:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: __rvx86

too funny, but yeah, he will pass this off as a non event as Apples cannot be hacked according to him.


15 posted on 03/21/2015 8:11:39 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Utilizer

My pills will drop your blood pressure until you pass out! ... :-) ...


16 posted on 03/21/2015 8:15:09 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Utilizer
’ts a “hack” because some people have found a way to deliberately crash your machine,

But it doesn't crash my machine, the browser tab doesn't render, that's all. It doesn't even affect other tabs, nor cause the browser to crash/quit.

no browsers are safe because to date it appears that there is no “perfect” browser out there as any of them can fail in one way or another

Not safe and not perfect are quite different things.

17 posted on 03/21/2015 8:22:55 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Star Traveler

Ha! I sneer at your paltry pills. My Linda does that whenever she wants to afterwards, with the appropriate sleepwear making it impossible to say ‘no’ to her beforehand.


18 posted on 03/21/2015 9:00:48 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: Blue Highway

There was a time when this was true...not anymore, since they switched from 68k/PPC to AMD64 (that’s the instruction set for all modern 64-bit processors, regardless of foundry—Intel had to cross-licence it from AMD!)


19 posted on 03/21/2015 9:03:27 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. Si se puede!)
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To: MeshugeMikey
FR makes it easy to open one after another tab...and I just never seem to get around to closing them...in time..

Well, yeah. FR is mostly text; I've visited FR using Internet Explorer 4 (mostly when working on my x86 micro-controller designs, for which I am targeting Win3.1/WinNT 3.51 on the 80386EX)

20 posted on 03/21/2015 9:05:50 PM PDT by __rvx86 (Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. Si se puede!)
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