If you use Google Chrome, you'll want to watch out for this bug:
If you use Google Chrome, you'll want to watch out for this bug:
According to VentureBeat, a specific character string of text could bring your browser crashing to the ground. According to VentureBeat, merely appending "%%30%30" to the end of a URL will cause Chrome to hang and crash. The cruelest twist? You don't even have to open a malformed URL to cause the crashmerely mousing over the link is enough to bring down Chrome.
Security researcher Andris Atteka originally discovered the bug by entering a URL with the added characters tacked on (a total of 26 characters), but VentureBeat noted that it takes even fewer characters--only 16 in total--to crash the browser.
Atteka says this is "only a DOS vulnerability"--that is, a crash-causing bug--so it isn't a security flaw in the truest sense of the word. Still, this bug has the potential to be quite a nuisance since you'll lose all your open browser tabs and windows.
The bug affects current versions of Chrome as of this writing, and will crash both Windows and OS X versions of the browser. While you probably won't come across it in the wild, Google has yet to release a patch for this bug, so be careful out there.
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