Chrome Releases
Release updates from the Chrome team
Stable Channel Update
Thursday, April 28, 2016
The stable channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.94 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
9 security fixes
. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the
Chromium security page
for more information.
[$3000][
574802
]
High
CVE-2016-1660: Out-of-bounds write in Blink.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[$3000][
601629
]
High
CVE-2016-1661: Memory corruption in cross-process frames.
Credit to Wadih Matar.
[$3000][
603732
]
High
CVE-2016-1662: Use-after-free in extensions.
Credit to Rob Wu.
[$3000][
603987
]
High
CVE-2016-1663: Use-after-free in Blink’s V8 bindings.
Credit to anonymous.
[$1000][
597322
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1664: Address bar spoofing.
Credit to Wadih Matar.
[$1000][
606181
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1665: Information leak in V8.
Credit to HyungSeok Han.
[$n/a][
586820
]
Low
CVE-2016-5168: Side channel information leak in Skia. Credit to Roeland Krak.
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.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[
607652
] CVE-2016-1666: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Many of our security bugs are detected using
AddressSanitizer
,
MemorySanitizer
,
Control Flow Integrity
or
LibFuzzer
.
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