Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update

Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 51 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Chrome 51.0.2704.63 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 51.

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 42 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.

[$7500][590118] High CVE-2016-1672: Cross-origin bypass in extension bindings. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.

[$7500][597532] High CVE-2016-1673: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.

[$7500][598165] High CVE-2016-1674: Cross-origin bypass in extensions. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.

[$7500][600182] High CVE-2016-1675: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.

[$7500][604901] High CVE-2016-1676: Cross-origin bypass in extension bindings. Credit to Rob Wu.

[$4000][602970] Medium CVE-2016-1677: Type confusion in V8. Credit to Guang Gong of Qihoo 360.

[$3500][595259] High CVE-2016-1678: Heap overflow in V8. Credit to Christian Holler.

[$3500][606390] High CVE-2016-1679: Heap use-after-free in V8 bindings. Credit to Rob Wu.

[$3000][589848] High CVE-2016-1680: Heap use-after-free in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$3000][613160] High CVE-2016-1681: Heap overflow in PDFium. Credit to Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos.

[$1000][579801] Medium CVE-2016-1682: CSP bypass for ServiceWorker. Credit to KingstonTime.

[$1000][583156] Medium CVE-2016-1683: Out-of-bounds access in libxslt. Credit to Nicolas Gregoire.

[$1000][583171] Medium CVE-2016-1684: Integer overflow in libxslt. Credit to Nicolas Gregoire.

[$1000][601362] Medium CVE-2016-1685: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu LAB.

[$1000][603518] Medium CVE-2016-1686: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu LAB.

[$1000][603748] Medium CVE-2016-1687: Information leak in extensions. Credit to Rob Wu. [$1000][604897] Medium CVE-2016-1688: Out-of-bounds read in V8. Credit to Max Korenko.

[$1000][606185] Medium CVE-2016-1689: Heap buffer overflow in media. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$1000][608100] Medium CVE-2016-1690: Heap use-after-free in Autofill. Credit to Rob Wu.

[$N/A][602046] Medium CVE-2016-10403: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to kdot working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative.

[$500][597926] Low CVE-2016-1691: Heap buffer-overflow in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$500][598077] Low CVE-2016-1692: Limited cross-origin bypass in ServiceWorker. Credit to Til Jasper Ullrich.

[$500][598752] Low CVE-2016-1693: HTTP Download of Software Removal Tool. Credit to Khalil Zhani.

[$500][603682] Low CVE-2016-1694: HPKP pins removed on cache clearance. Credit to Ryan Lester and Bryant Zadegan.

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:

[614767] CVE-2016-1695: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Control Flow Integrity or LibFuzzer.
Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Krishna GovindGoogle Chrome