How to Crash Google Chrome

• There’s a bug in Google Chrome search engine that allows to crash the chrome browser on demand by typing a small piece of code in the page’s URL

• Actually this bug was discovered by Andris Atteka and was reported to the Google Chromium team. According to Atteka, by entering this piece of code “http://anywebsitename.com/%%30%30” in page’s URL will immediately crash the user’s browser.

• The main code is “%%30%30”, you need to add this code at the end of page URL and enter it, and it will give you the same result.

• Here’s the technical explanation on Andris report from Chromium team  “It seems to be crashing in some very old code. In the Debug build, it’s hitting a DCHECK on an invalid URL in GURL, deep in some History code. Given that it’s hitting a CHECK in the Release build, I don’t think this is actually a security bug, but I’m going to leave it as such.”

• This bug seems to be affected on recent versions of Google Chrome (45) running on Windows, and will be fixed in upcoming versions.

• This bug is harmless, but still it can be used to cause local DoS  (Denial-of-Service) attacks, since this bug was a local DoS issue, Mr. Andris Atteka was not paid for any bug bounty programs.