INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Another serious security flaw has been found in the popular Google Chrome Internet browser.Known as Magellan 2.0, it is actually a set of
five vulnerabilities relating to how Chrome uses the SQLite function to work with data.Discovered by researchers at the Tencent Blade Team,
the Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities come just after a year since the same team discovered a similar set of issues within the Chrome
browser.These vulnerabilities all relate to how data input is validated by Chrome's built in SQL database, specially the way its WebSQL API
changes JavaScript code into SQL commands.At best any of these five vulnerabilities could have resulted in the Chrome browser crashing
At worst, the researchers claim the vulnerabilities could have allowed an attacker to set up a SQL operation to hijack some part of the
browser functions, through remote code execution.However, there's no need to panic as Tencent Blade have already notified Google and SQLite
of the vulnerabilities, and these have been patched in the latest version of the Google Chrome browser.Additionally, the Tencent Blade Team
announced that they haven't detected any exploitation of the reported vulnerabilities against general internet users.Via ZDnet
