Google heeft versie 45 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 45 treffen we geen nieuwe mogelijkheden aan, maar zijn er weer 29 beveiligingsproblemen verholpen en diverse bugfixes doorgevoerd. De releasenotes voor deze uitgave zien er als volgt uit:
Stable Channel Update
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 45 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 45.0.2454.85 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 45.
Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes 29 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. The total value of additional rewards and their recipients will updated here when all reports have gone through the reward panel.
- [516377] High CVE-2015-1291: Cross-origin bypass in DOM.
- [522791] High CVE-2015-1292: Cross-origin bypass in ServiceWorker.
- [524074] High CVE-2015-1293: Cross-origin bypass in DOM.
- [492263] High CVE-2015-1294: Use-after-free in Skia.
- [502562] High CVE-2015-1295: Use-after-free in Printing.
- [421332] High CVE-2015-1296: Character spoofing in omnibox.
- [510802] Medium CVE-2015-1297: Permission scoping error in WebRequest.
- [518827] Medium CVE-2015-1298: URL validation error in extensions.
- [416362] Medium CVE-2015-1299: Use-after-free in Blink.
- [511616] Medium CVE-2015-1300: Information leak in Blink.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
- [526825] CVE-2015-1301: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
- Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.5 branch (currently 4.5.103.29).