The flaw was discovered last week by the expert Andris Atteka who filed also a bug report. This issue reminded me of the recent Skype vulnerability both occur with simple URL strings. By adding a NULL char in the URL string, users can kill their browser just rolling the mouse over them in a page, or launching them from another application such as an email client, or pasting them into the address bar. Chrome 45.0.2454.93 on OS X El Capitan and Windows 10 and also Opera 32.0 which is based on Chromium 45 crash.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/40292/hacking/string-crash-google-chrome.html