The Link That Can Crash Google Chrome

In the news today: a link which, when moused over or clicked on, crashes Google Chrome. It’s a heck of a bug: but how does it work, and what does it have to do with “null-terminated strings”?

An attack known as Double Encoding

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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