Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 101 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 101.0.4951.41 for Windows,Mac and Linux 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 101.

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

[$10000][1313905] High CVE-2022-1477: Use after free in Vulkan. Reported by SeongHwan Park (SeHwa) on 2022-04-06

[$7000][1299261] High CVE-2022-1478: Use after free in SwiftShader. Reported by SeongHwan Park (SeHwa) on 2022-02-20

[$7000][1305190] High CVE-2022-1479: Use after free in ANGLE. Reported by Jeonghoon Shin of Theori on 2022-03-10

[$7000][1306861] High CVE-2022-4920: Heap buffer overflow in Blink. Reported by Shih-Fong Peng (@_L4ys) of TrapaSecurity on 2022-03-16

[$5000][1302949] High CVE-2022-1481: Use after free in Sharing. Reported by Weipeng Jiang (@Krace) and Guang Gong of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute on 2022-03-04

[$7500][1313709] High CVE-2022-1919: Use after free in Codecs. Reported by Irvan Kurniawan (sourc7) on 2022-04-05

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[$1000][1312450] High CVE-2022-4919: Use after free in Base Internals. Reported by Sri on 2022-04-01_
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[$NA][1304987] High CVE-2022-1482: Inappropriate implementation in WebGL. Reported by Christoph Diehl, Microsoft on 2022-03-10

[$NA][1314754] High CVE-2022-1483: Heap buffer overflow in WebGPU. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2022-04-08

[$7500][1297429] Medium CVE-2022-1484: Heap buffer overflow in Web UI Settings. Reported by Chaoyuan Peng (@ret2happy) on 2022-02-15

[$7500][1299743] Medium CVE-2022-1485: Use after free in File System API. Reported by Anonymous on 2022-02-22

[$7500][1314616] Medium CVE-2022-1486: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Brendon Tiszka on 2022-04-08

[$7000][1304368] Medium CVE-2022-1487: Use after free in Ozone. Reported by Sri on 2022-03-09

[$5000][1302959] Medium CVE-2022-1488: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API. Reported by Thomas Beverley from Wavebox.io on 2022-03-04

[$2000][1300561] Medium CVE-2022-1489: Out of bounds memory access in UI Shelf. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2022-02-25

[$2000][1301840] Medium CVE-2022-1490: Use after free in Browser Switcher. Reported by raven at KunLun lab on 2022-03-01

[$2000][1305706] Medium CVE-2022-1491: Use after free in Bookmarks. Reported by raven at KunLun lab on 2022-03-12

[$2000][1315040] Medium CVE-2022-1492: Insufficient data validation in Blink Editing. Reported by Michał Bentkowski of Securitum on 2022-04-11

[$1000][1275414] Medium CVE-2022-1493: Use after free in Dev Tools. Reported by Zhihua Yao of KunLun Lab on 2021-12-01

[$1000][1298122] Medium CVE-2022-1494: Insufficient data validation in Trusted Types. Reported by Masato Kinugawa on 2022-02-17

[$1000][1301180] Medium CVE-2022-1495: Incorrect security UI in Downloads. Reported by Umar Farooq on 2022-02-28

[$1000][1306391] Medium CVE-2022-1496: Use after free in File Manager. Reported by Zhiyi Zhang and Zhunki from Codesafe Team of Legendsec at Qi’anxin Group on 2022-03-15

[$NA][1264543] Medium CVE-2022-1497: Inappropriate implementation in Input. Reported by Abdulrahman Alqabandi, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on 2021-10-29

[$500][1297138] Low CVE-2022-1498: Inappropriate implementation in HTML Parser. Reported by SeungJu Oh (@real_as3617) on 2022-02-14

[$NA][1000408] Low CVE-2022-1499: Inappropriate implementation in WebAuthentication. Reported by Jun Kokatsu, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on 2019-09-04

[$TBD][1223475] Low CVE-2022-1500: Insufficient data validation in Dev Tools. Reported by Hoang Nguyen on 2021-06-25

[$NA][1293191] Low CVE-2022-1501: Inappropriate implementation in iframe. Reported by Oriol Brufau on 2022-02-02

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:

[1320031] 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