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OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab

Posted by timothy on from the cat-like-typing-detected dept.

abhishekmdb writes No browsers are safe, as proved yesterday at Pwn2Own, but crashing one of them with just one line of special code is slightly different. A developer has discovered a hack in Google Chrome which can crash the Chrome tab on a Mac PC. The code is a 13-character special string which appears to be written in Assyrian script. Matt C has reported the bug to Google, who have marked the report as duplicate. This means that Google are aware of the problem and are reportedly working on it.

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  1. Thank you, Neal Stephenson by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let us henceforth dub it the Snow Crash exploit.

  2. How well forethought of dice by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    to ditch unicode support. They recognized that experimental technology like this shouldn't be rolled out to this much users. Thank you dice for keeping slashdot safe!

  3. Re:Related poem by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,
    Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the fold?
    In heaven and earth more than is dreamed of in our philosophy there are great many things.
    But I don't imagine that among them there is a wolf with purple and gold cohorts or purple and gold anythings.

    Ogden Nash

  4. Re:Type "bush hid the facts" into Notepad. by Pinky's+Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    My conclusion is that the unicode guys are assholes.