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Google Chrome Critical Security Update
Apr 27, 2009

Σε αναβάθμιση της έκδοσης του Chrome προχώρησε η Google προκειμένου να διορθωθεί κενό ασφαλείας που ανακαλύφθηκε από ερευνητή ασφαλείας της IBM.

Το περίεργο είναι πως η εκτέλεση του κακόβουλου κώδικα γίνεται ακόμα και αν ο Chrome είναι κλειστός.

Συγκεκριμένα, αν ο χρήστης επισκεφτεί ένα «μολυσμένο» site με τον Internet Explorer, τότε ανοίγει αυτόματα ο Google Chrome, με δεκάδες ανοικτά tabs.

Release Notes: 2.0.176.0

Updates:

[r14056] Update WebKit 530.7 (r42671)
[r14185] Update V8 to version 1.1.10.4. This version contains the fix for a (Issue: 10726)
[r13641] Update to version 26 of open-vcdiff (underpinnings for SDCH decoder)

Visible Changes:

[r13934] On some sites text disappears or is never drawn. For example, on Google Calendar, the titles for all day events do not display. (Issue: 9904)

[r13662] Added undo tab closing item to Tab menu.
[r13685] Fixes a bug where scrolling up would draw over the horizontal
[r13805] Fix issue: If SpellChecker is disabled through UI, then right-click context menu's spell checker language option should be unchecked. (Issue: 7239)
[r13807] Allow users to hit ctrl-shift-delete ("clear browsing data") even in fullscreen mode. (Issue: 9318)
[r13822] Fix a painting problem observed with windowless flash plugins, when they are initially created with a zero clip (Issue: 10536)
[r13926] On uninstall ask whether to delete profile. (Issue: 8431)
[r13954] Disable the move/size/maximize entries on the system menu in fullscreen mode. (Issue: 8024)
[r14116] Add open/close animations to infobar, download shelf.
[r14167] Make sure radio buttons can't be toggled like checkboxes. (Issue: 10834)
[r14179] Disable RCtrl + RShift shortcut for changing directionality when no RTL language installed. (Issue: 9718)
[r14158] Fixes for selecting RTL text. (Issues: 6125, 8686)
[r13773] Fixes a problem where for some Indian locales, the automatic font fallback by Windows UI components leads to too tiny glyphs for UI strings. (Issue: 7319)

Crashes:

[r13644] Fix a crash where the ResourceMessageFilter is deleted before a (Issue: 8544)
[r14137] Fix hang seen in plugin process. (Issue: 10711)
[r13679] Fix a crash when the browser opens a popup window in Linux.
[r13785] Fix crash in setup.exe. (Issue: 10507)
[r14115] Linux UI Crash (Issue: 10776)