I like the Chrome browser. It’s fast. It’s ridiculously fast. I don’t use it while finding items to blog about, or for anything else “productive”. But when I want to kick back and just surf the web, and look at promotional items, I have been testing Chrome.

Bach Khoa Internetwork Security, a security-research firm in Vietnam, claims to be the first to discover a critical vulnerability in Google’s Chrome browser.

“This is the first critical Chrome vulnerability permitting [a] hacker to perform a remote code-execution attack and take complete control of the affected system,” the firm wrote in its Sept. 5 advisory. While four Chrome vulnerabilities were discovered, Bach Khoa said the “Save As” flaw is the only one that can allow an attacker to launch remote attacks from a victim’s PC. Other vulnerabilities just crash the browser.

Thank goodness I don’t save anything while using Chrome, huh?

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