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Stable Channel Update
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The Chrome team is overjoyed to announce the promotion of Chrome 42 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 42.0.2311.90 contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:
A number of new apps, extension and Web Platform APIs (including the
Push API
!)
Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
The answer to
life, the universe and everything
A list of changes is available in the
log
.
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
45 security fixes
. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the
Chromium security page
for more information.
[$7500][
456518
] High CVE-2015-1235: Cross-origin-bypass in HTML parser. Credit to anonymous.
[$4000][
313939
] Medium CVE-2015-1236: Cross-origin-bypass in Blink. Credit to Amitay Dobo.
[$3000][
461191
] High CVE-2015-1237: Use-after-free in IPC. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
[$2000][
445808
] High CVE-2015-1238: Out-of-bounds write in Skia. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$1000][
463599
] Medium CVE-2015-1240: Out-of-bounds read in WebGL. Credit to w3bd3vil.
[$1000][
418402
] Medium CVE-2015-1241: Tap-Jacking. Credit to Phillip Moon and Matt Weston of Sandfield.
[$500][
460917
] High CVE-2015-1242: Type confusion in V8. Credit to fcole@onshape.com.
[$500][
455215
] Medium CVE-2015-1244: HSTS bypass in WebSockets. Credit to Mike Ruddy.
[$500][
444957
] Medium CVE-2015-1245: Use-after-free in PDFium. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
[$500][
437399
] Medium CVE-2015-1246: Out-of-bounds read in Blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[$500][
429838
] Medium CVE-2015-1247: Scheme issues in OpenSearch. Credit to Jann Horn.
[$500][
380663
] Medium CVE-2015-1248: SafeBrowsing bypass. Credit to Vittorio Gambaletta (VittGam).
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. The total value of additional
rewards and their recipients will updated here when all reports have gone through the reward panel.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[
476786
] CVE-2015-1249: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.2 branch (currently 4.2.77.14).
Many of the above bugs were detected using
AddressSanitizer
or
MemorySanitizer
.
Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Alex Mineer
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Thursday, April 9, 2015
The dev channel has been updated to 43.0.2357.10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Daniel Xie
Google Chrome
Admin Console Update
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The Admin console has been updated with a new field in the device list.
The
Asset ID
field allows admins to track devices using their preferred inventory asset naming conventions.
It is now possible to sort the device list by asset ID.
Edit the asset ID by clicking on a device, then editing the "Notes" field.
Read and write access are available via the
Directory API
.
Known issues are available
here
. Enterprise customers can report an issue by
contacting support
.
Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The Dev channel has been updated to 43.0.2357.5 (Platform version: 6946.2.0) for all Chrome OS devices except for Asus Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
or
filing a bug
. Interested in switching channels?
Find out how
. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The beta channel has been updated to 42.0.2311.82 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
A list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Alex Mineer
Google Chrome
Admin Console Update
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Admin console has been updated with a new user setting.
SafeSearch for Google Web Search and Safety Mode for YouTube can now be
independently configured
on Chrome 41 and above.
For users using devices running Chrome 40 and prior, enabling any setting that turns on SafeSearch will also turn on Safety Mode for YouTube. This includes the settings "Always use SafeSearch for Google Web Search and Safety Mode for YouTube queries" and "Always use SafeSearch for Google Web Search queries only."
The setting "Always use Safety Mode for YouTube queries only" will not work on devices running Chrome version 40 and prior.
Known issues are available
here
. Enterprise customers can report an issue by
contacting support
.
Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Monday, April 6, 2015
The dev channel has been updated to 43.0.2357.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Daniel Xie
Google Chrome
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