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The Link That Can Crash Chrome: http://a/%%30%30

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Tom Scott explains how a specific URL containing a null byte could crash Google Chrome due to a string handling bug.

tomscott.com - twitter.com/tomscott - 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"? TECH DETAILS: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361

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