{"id":168205,"date":"2016-06-13T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=168205"},"modified":"2016-06-13T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T10:43:04","slug":"big-google-chrome-security-bug-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168205-big-google-chrome-security-bug-fixed.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Google Chrome security bug fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has patched a Chrome security bug that allowed cyber criminals to execute code and take over your system.<\/p>\n<p>The Chrome vulnerability was discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos, who identified an exploitable heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the PDFium PDF reader.<\/p>\n<p>PDFium is the default PDF reader included in Chrome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy simply viewing a PDF document that includes an embedded jpeg2000 image, the attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim\u2019s system,\u201d said Cisco Talos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most effective attack vector is for the threat actor to place a malicious PDF file on a website, and then redirect victims to the website using either phishing emails or malvertising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.za\/2016\/05\/stable-channel-update_25.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleChromeReleases+(Google+Chrome+Releases)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google has released a patch<\/strong><\/a> to fix the issue, which it said contained \u201ca number of fixes and improvements\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Chrome<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/167865-new-google-chrome-for-android.html\"><strong>New Google Chrome for Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/165072-google-will-block-flash-in-chrome.html\"><strong>Google will block Flash in Chrome<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162968-chromebooks-set-to-receive-android-apps.html\"><strong>Chromebooks set to receive Android apps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has patched a Chrome security bug that allowed cyber criminals to execute code and take over your system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,37627,1567,37629,167,37631],"class_list":["post-168205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-aleksandar-nikolic","tag-chrome","tag-cisco-talos","tag-google","tag-pdfium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168227,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168205\/revisions\/168227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}