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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jan 2017
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Type: Bug-Security



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Security: Bug in Chrome Settings

Reported by roshanma...@gmail.com, Jan 16 2017

Issue description

The name section in google chrome->settings->people->name can contain infinite characters.This is a security issue which can be exploited.The name section should be cut down to a particular character limit.The code needs to be updated.
I am currently in my final year computer engineering from Mumbai and I hope this message is of some value to you.

Regards
Roshan C Mathew
 
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Comment 1 by aarya@google.com, Jan 17 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This is not a security vulnerability in any way. Having a large set of characters is not problematic here, it requires user interaction and this didn't result in any exploitable crash.
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Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Apr 25 2017

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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