Software-update: Google Chrome 17.0.963.56

Google heeft een update voor versie 17 van zijn webbrowser Chrome uitgebracht. Google Chrome is beschikbaar in drie verschillende uitvoeringen: stable, bèta en dev. Developmentversies zitten in een vroeg stadium van ontwikkeling en zijn dus het minst stabiel. In versie 17 is onder andere de omnibox verbeterd. Terwijl je nog bezig bent de zoekterm in te tikken haalt Google alvast de pagina op die het denkt dat je wilt zien. Deze verschijnt daardoor een stuk sneller. Verder worden nu ook downloads tegen het licht gehouden om zo een gebruiker beter te beschermen. De verbeteringen die Google met deze update doorvoert, kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.

Stable Channel Update

The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.56 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of stability and security issues in Chrome, and also includes a new version of Flash. More info on the Flash update is available from Adobe.

Security fixes and rewards:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

• [105803] High CVE-2011-3015: Integer overflows in PDF codecs.
• [106336] Medium CVE-2011-3016: Read-after-free with counter nodes.
• [108695] High CVE-2011-3017: Possible use-after-free in database handling.
• [110172] High CVE-2011-3018: Heap overflow in path rendering.
• [110849] High CVE-2011-3019: Heap buffer overflow in MKV handling.
• [111575] Medium CVE-2011-3020: Native client validator error.
• [111779] High CVE-2011-3021: Use-after-free in subframe loading.
• [112236] Medium CVE-2011-3022: Inappropriate use of http for translation script.
• [112259] Medium CVE-2011-3023: Use-after-free with drag and drop.
• [112451] Low CVE-2011-3024: Browser crash with empty x509 certificate.
• [112670] Medium CVE-2011-3025: Out-of-bounds read in h.264 parsing.
• [112822] High CVE-2011-3026: Integer overflow / truncation in libpng.
• [112847] High CVE-2011-3027: Bad cast in column handling.

The bugs [106336], [106336], [110172], [110849], [111779] and [112847] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.