Stable Channel Update

**Update:**We are separately updating users to Flash Player 11.8.800.97 via our component updater.

The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.71 for Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)

This automatic update includes security fixes. We'd like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):

• [$21,500] A special reward for Andrey Labunets for his combination of CVE-2013-2879 and CVE-2013-2868 along with some (since fixed) server-side bugs.

• [252216] Low CVE-2013-2867: Block pop-unders in various scenarios.

• [252062] High CVE-2013-2879: Confusion setting up sign-in and sync. Credit to Andrey Labunets.

• [252034] Medium CVE-2013-2868: Incorrect sync of NPAPI extension component. Credit to Andrey Labunets.

• [245153] Medium CVE-2013-2869: Out-of-bounds read in JPEG2000 handling. Credit to Felix Groebert of Google Security Team.

• [$6267.4] [244746] [242762] Critical CVE-2013-2870: Use-after-free with network sockets. Credit to Collin Payne.

• [$3133.7] [244260] Medium CVE-2013-2853: Man-in-the-middle attack against HTTP in SSL. Credit to Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan from Prosecco at INRIA Paris.

• [$2000] [243991] [243818] High CVE-2013-2871: Use-after-free in input handling. Credit to miaubiz.

• [Mac only] [242702] Low CVE-2013-2872: Possible lack of entropy in renderers. Credit to Eric Rescorla.

• [$1000] [241139] High CVE-2013-2873: Use-after-free in resource loading. Credit to miaubiz.

• [Windows + NVIDIA only] [$500] [237611] Medium CVE-2013-2874: Screen data leak with GL textures. Credit to "danguafer".

• [$500] [233848] Medium CVE-2013-2875: Out-of-bounds-read in SVG. Credit to miaubiz.

• [229504] Medium CVE-2013-2876: Extensions permissions confusion with interstitials. Credit to Dev Akhawe.

• [229019] Low CVE-2013-2877: Out-of-bounds read in XML parsing. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

• [196636] None: Remove the "viewsource" attribute on iframes. Credit to Collin Jackson.

• [177197] Medium CVE-2013-2878: Out-of-bounds read in text handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

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

• [256985] High CVE-2013-2880: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives (Chrome 28).

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log and the Chrome Chrome Blog. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome