The Chrome web client will immediately return the most plausible suggestions matching your search.

choose one of these search suggestions and suddenly you will find your Chrome internet tool has crashed.

Their method relies on using the search suggestions feature that these browsers support.

Hackers can crash your Chrome and Firefox browser remotely using search suggestions

This is due to the fact that browsers do not check for sizes in the search suggestions responses.

Obviously, this is more of an issue for mobile devices which have lower memory than desktops.

Our bug reports with the vendors provide more details on which code is causing this.

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This re-enforces the fact online grid traffic SHOULD NEVER be trusted.

This means that the bug is more of a nuisance value than a threat.

source: www.techworm.net