Archive for October, 2008

Issue with Google Talk Show Current Music Track and Winamp

A lot of people have (including me) have been facing a series of crashes when using the ‘Show Current Music Track’ feature of Google Talk and Winamp (5.531 in my case). I Googled and found that there were a lot of solutions that did not work, including one from the folks at Google itself which [...]

Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome

Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 :
“The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can be [...]