Google Fixes 17 Flaws in Chrome 28

Google has fixed more than 15 vulnerabilities in Chrome and paid out nearly $35,000 in rewards to security researchers for reporting the bugs. One researcher earned an unusually large reward of $21,500 for a series of vulnerabilities he reported in Chrome.

Google Chrome 28 includes fixes for three high-risk security flaws and just one critical bug. The lone critical vulnerability is a use-after-free flaw in network sockets reported by Collin Payne. The big winner in the Google bug bounty program for this release is Andrey Labunets, who reported a pair of vulnerabilities that earned him the special reward of $21,500.

Here’s the full list of vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 28 for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame:

• [$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.