Chrome Releases
Release updates from the Chrome team
Stable Channel Update
Monday, January 25, 2010
The stable channel has been updated to 4.0.249.78 for Windows, and includes the following features and security fixes (since 3.0):
Extensions
Bookmark sync
Enhanced developer tools
HTML5: Notifications, Web Database, Local Storage, WebSockets, Ruby support
v8 performance improvements
Skia performance improvements
Full ACID3 pass, due to re-enabled remote font support (with added defense against bugs in operating system font libraries)
HTTP byte range support
New security feature: "Strict Transport Security" support
Experimental new anti-reflected-XSS feature called "XSS Auditor"
Security Fixes:
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.
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Low
Pop-up blocker bypass.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).
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9877
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Medium
Cross-domain theft due to CSS design error.
Credit to Chris Evans of the Google Security Team.
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12523
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Medium
Browser memory error with stale pop-up block menu.
Credit to Jacob Balle and Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.
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20450
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Low
Prevent XHR to directories.
Credit to the Chromium development community.
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23693
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Low
Escape more characters in shortcuts.
Credit to Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team and, independently, Inferno of SecureThoughts.com.
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24646
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High
Renderer memory errors drawing on canvases.
Credit to Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team and Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).
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28566
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High
Image decoding memory error.
Credit to Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team.
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29920
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Low
Corner case failure to strip Referer.
Credit to the Chromium development community.
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30660
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High
Cross-domain access error.
Credit to Tokuji Akamine, Senior Consultant at Symantec Consulting Services.
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31307
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High
Bitmap deserialization error.
Credit to Mark Dowd, under contract to Google Chrome Security Team.
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31517
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Low
Browser crash with nested URL.
Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome Program Manager
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