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Severe Chrome bug.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 5:34 am
by lylejk
Got this link from Slashdot.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/chrome-b ... 5068.shtml
Any possibility that this can be patched for us x86 WinXP users too?
Re: Severe Chrome bug.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:01 am
by lylejk
For now, I just disabled Chromium's PDF internal viewer. Not sure if this is a solution or not. Can disable by going to chrome://plugins/
Re: Severe Chrome bug.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:46 pm
by bksening
That's just a manufactured click-bait article on a slow news day.
This bug was already patched and fixed in Chrome in the v.51.0.2704.63 release on May 25.
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca ... te_25.html
Security Fixes and Rewards
[$3000][613160] High CVE-2016-1681: Heap overflow in PDFium. Credit to Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos.
The only reason third-party trash news sites know about this is because they're only now getting around to reading the update posts and re-posting other trash sites trash articles.
Re: Severe Chrome bug.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 8:13 pm
by SRWare
lylejk wrote:For now, I just disabled Chromium's PDF internal viewer. Not sure if this is a solution or not. Can disable by going to chrome://plugins/
Yes, this is a possible solution on XP
Re: Severe Chrome bug.
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:57 am
by lylejk
Thanks for that confirmation, SRWare. Here's still hoping that somehow a current version of SR Iron still can be compiled one day for XP. Just glad this bug had an easy work-a-round.
