Googles browser Chrome, is for the third time in a short time cracked. A teenager found a way to use three exploits from the sandbox to break. Details of the vulnerability were not disclosed, but the leak is already fixed.
A teenager with the nickname Pinkie Pie has the vulnerability and submitted to Pwnium, a competition that Google itself wrote to vulnerabilities in Chrome to find. A developer that the security of Chrome and crackled, wins $ 60,000 and a Chromebook. The contest is now over.
Details about the three leaks that Pinkie Pie has found are not published. Thanks to the exploit had a malicious in the sandbox that Chrome runs can escape, so damage could be caused to a computer. The exploit asked for no action from a user, writes ZDNet, which Pinkie Pie spoke.
With the exploit of Pinkie Pie comes to the number of times that Chrome is cracked in recent weeks, on three: two times through Pwnium and once through hackwedstrijd Pwn2Own. The leaks in Pwnium are uncovered, are now repaired. The details of the flaw at Pwn2Own are in possession of Vupen, a company that exploits sells to governments. Therefore, Google is not about the details, and the vulnerability could not be bridged. The details of hacks at Pwn2Own have since this year not to be revealed. It was therefore decided Google Pwn2Own not to sponsor, but kept it with Pwnium a private event.