PinkiePie Strikes Again, Compromises Google Chrome in Pwnium Contest at Hack in the Box

For the second time this year, an anonymous teenage security researcher has succeeded in producing a full exploit, including a sandbox escape, against Google Chrome. The researcher, who uses the pseudonym PinkiePie, submitted his exploit Wednesday during the Pwnium contest run by Google at the Ha...

Google Fixes Five Bugs in Chrome 18

Google has fixed five security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, including three high-severity flaws. One of the less-severe vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 18 is a race condition in the browser’s sandbox. This round of patches in Chrome is one of the rare occasions when the company didn’t...

Google Fixes Second Set of Chrome Bugs Used in Pwnium Contest

Google has pushed out a patch for the second full sandbox escape exploit used in the Pwnium contest at CanSecWest. The Chrome vulnerabilities that the exploit targeted were discovered by an anonymous researcher who used the name PinkiePie and claimed a $60,000 reward from Google. The attack that...

FreeBSD : chromium -- Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption (ab1f515d-6b69-11e1-8288-00262d5ed8ee)

Google Chrome Releases reports : 117620 117656 Critical CVE-2011-3047: Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption. Credit to PinkiePie. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML...

chromium -- Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption

Google Chrome Releases reports: 117620 117656 Critical CVE-2011-3047: Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption. Credit to PinkiePie...

Chrome Stable Update

The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.79 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes issues with Flash games, along with the security fix listed below. Security fixes and rewards: Congratulations to PinkiePie aka PwniePie for a beautiful piece of work to close out...