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Crash Chrome With 16 Characters

Posted by timothy on from the you-go-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Remember when it took just eight characters to crash Skype? Apparently it takes double that to take out Chrome: Typing in a 16-character link and hitting enter, clicking on a 16-character link, or even just putting your cursor over a 16-character link, will crash Google's browser. To try it yourself, fire up Chrome 45 (the latest stable version) or older and put this into your address bar: http: //a/%%30%30 (without the space).

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  1. Meanwhile, At Google... by Greyfox · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "Oh shit! Someone found a buffer overflow in our browser. Someone increase MAX_CHARS for that field to 32!"

    "That's ridiculous! No computer can handle 32 things!"

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