Google heeft een update voor versie 49 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 releaseschema. In deze update zijn diverse bugfixes doorgevoerd en enkele beveiligingsprobleem verholpen, waaronder die gevonden op de Pwn2own hackersbijeenkomst.
Stable Channel Update
The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.108 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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 5 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
- [594574] High CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8.
- [590284] High CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation.
- [590455] High CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions.
- [595836] High CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE.
- [597518] CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
- Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33).