Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 128 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
Chrome 128.0.6613.84 (Linux) 128.0.6613.84/.85( Windows, Mac) 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 126.

Chrome 128.0.6613.84( Windows, Mac) has been pushed to extended stable channel as well
Updated on 26 August 2024 to reflect the in the wild exploitation of CVE-2024-7965 which was reported after this release.

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 37 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

[$36000][358296941] High CVE-2024-7964: Use after free in Passwords. Reported by Anonymous on 2024-08-08

[$11000][356196918] High CVE-2024-7965: Inappropriate implementation in V8. Reported by TheDog on 2024-07-30

[$10000][355465305] High CVE-2024-7966: Out of bounds memory access in Skia. Reported by Renan Rios (@HyHy100) on 2024-07-25

[$7000][355731798] High CVE-2024-7967: Heap buffer overflow in Fonts. Reported by Tashita Software Security on 2024-07-27

[$1000][349253666] High CVE-2024-7968: Use after free in Autofill. Reported by Han Zheng (HexHive) on 2024-06-25

[TBD][360700873] High CVE-2024-7971: Type confusion in V8. Reported by Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) on 2024-08-19

[$11000][345960102] Medium CVE-2024-7972: Inappropriate implementation in V8. Reported by Simon Gerst (intrigus-lgtm), Liam Wachter, and Julian Gremminger on 2024-06-10

[$7000][345518608] Medium CVE-2024-7973: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium. Reported by soiax on 2024-06-06

[$3000][339141099] Medium CVE-2024-7974: Insufficient data validation in V8 API. Reported by bowu(@gocrashed) on 2024-05-07

[$3000][347588491] Medium CVE-2024-7975: Inappropriate implementation in Permissions. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2024-06-16

[$2000][339654392] Medium CVE-2024-7976: Inappropriate implementation in FedCM. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2024-05-10

[$1000][324770940] Medium CVE-2024-7977: Insufficient data validation in Installer. Reported by Kim Dong-uk (@justlikebono) on 2024-02-11

[$1000][40060358] Medium CVE-2024-7978: Insufficient policy enforcement in Data Transfer. Reported by NDevTK on 2022-07-21

[TBD][356064205] Medium CVE-2024-7979: Insufficient data validation in Installer. Reported by VulnNoob on 2024-07-29

[TBD][356328460] Medium CVE-2024-7980: Insufficient data validation in Installer. Reported by VulnNoob on 2024-07-30

[$1000][40067456] Low CVE-2024-7981: Inappropriate implementation in Views. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2023-07-14

[$500][350256139] Low CVE-2024-8033: Inappropriate implementation in WebApp Installs. Reported by Lijo A.T on 2024-06-30

[$500][353858776] Low CVE-2024-8034: Inappropriate implementation in Custom Tabs. Reported by Bharat (mrnoob) on 2024-07-18

[TBD][40059470] Low CVE-2024-8035: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions. Reported by Microsoft on 2022-04-26

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.

Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2024-7971 and CVE-2024-7965 exist in the wild.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

[361165957] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.

Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. 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.

Prudhvikumar Bommana
Google Chrome