Google heeft versie 38 van zijn webbrowser Chrome uitgebracht. Google Chrome is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en OS X. Er zijn ook versies voor Android en iOS, maar die volgen een iets ander release-schema. In versie 38 treffen we geen grote veranderingen aan. De release notes maken melding van diverse nieuwe apps en extension-api's, en en veranderingen die de stabiliteit en prestaties ten goede moeten komen. Verder zijn er weer een groot aantal voornamelijk kleine maar toch ook een paar ernstige beveiligingsproblemen verholpen.
Stable Channel Update
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 38 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 38.0.2125.101 contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:A full list of changes is available in the log.
- A number of new apps/extension APIs
- Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
Security Fixes and Rewards
This update includes 159 security fixes, including 113 relatively minor fixes found using MemorySanitizer. Below, we highlight fixes that were either contributed by external researchers or particularly interesting. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.We would also like to thank Atte Kettunen of OUSPG and Collin Payne for working with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. $23,000 in additional rewards were issued.
- [416449] Critical CVE-2014-3188: A special thanks to Jüri Aedla for a combination of V8 and IPC bugs that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox.
- [398384] High CVE-2014-3189: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium.
- [400476] High CVE-2014-3190: Use-after-free in Events.
- [402407] High CVE-2014-3191: Use-after-free in Rendering.
- [403276] High CVE-2014-3192: Use-after-free in DOM.
- [399655] High CVE-2014-3193: Type confusion in Session Management.
- [401115] High CVE-2014-3194: Use-after-free in Web Workers.
- [403409] Medium CVE-2014-3195: Information Leak in V8.
- [338538] Medium CVE-2014-3196: Permissions bypass in Windows Sandbox.
- [396544] Medium CVE-2014-3197: Information Leak in XSS Auditor.
- [415307] Medium CVE-2014-3198: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium.
- [395411] Low CVE-2014-3199: Release Assert in V8 bindings.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work responsible for a wide range of fixes:
- [420899] CVE-2014-3200: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives (Chrome 38).
- Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 3.28 branch (currently 3.28.71.15).