Google has released Chrome 21, the most recent stable version of its flagship browser. The new release includes more than two dozen security fixes, among them patches for six high-priority flaws.
Chrome 21 is the rare release from Google that includes fixes for mainly low and medium-severity vulnerabilities. There is only one critical flaw fixed in this release, and that one is present only on Linux. That vulnerability is a crash in the tab-handling function of Chrome and was discovered by a member of the company’s internal security team.
In fact, many of the flaws repaired in Chrome 21 were found either by members of the Google security team or the Chrome security team. The company typically pays out fairly large amounts of money to researchers as part of its bug bounty program with each release, but only handed out $2,000 this time around.
Here’s the full list of fixes in Chrome 21:
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=125225
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code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128163
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code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130592
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code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132694
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code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=134888
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code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135264
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136235
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136894
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137541
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137671