This new exploit will crash your Chrome web browser, and Google hasn’t got a fix yet. Here’s what you need to know.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Dickens could easily have been writing about Google Chrome users given the last few days., which kind of counts, as do those security fixes if you ask me.
What falls firmly into the worst category, however, is news of a new vulnerability called Brash that can crash your Chrome browser and impacts 3 billion users. Oh, and there’s no fix right now. Here’s what you need to know. Security researcher Jose Pino contacted Forbes to reveal that he had found a critical vulnerability in the Blink rendering engine used in Chrome, and other web browsers that are built around the Chromium model, and demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit to me that did, indeed, cause my Chrome browser to freeze and require restarting., based upon a vulnerability that causes “any Chromium browser to collapse in 15-60 seconds by exploiting an architectural flaw in how certain DOM operations are managed.” The document object model, simply put, connects web pages to programming languages or scripts. Pino was able to show that there is no rate limiting on document.title application programming interface updates, and that, dear reader, means that millions of ‘DOM mutations’ per second can be injected in order to cause the interface to collapse and the browser to freeze. “The impact is significant,” Pino warned, “it consumes high CPU resources, degrades overall system performance, and can halt or slow down other processes running simultaneously.” What’s more, it affects desktop and Android browsers.
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