Google on Th patched 6 vulnerabilities inwards Chrome, together with equally usual, silently updated users' copies of the browser.
The update to Chrome 10.0.648.204 also included 2 to a greater extent than blacklisted SSL certificates that may endure related to concluding week's theft of nine digital certificates from a Comodo reseller.
All 6 bugs were rated "high," Google's second-most-serious ranking inwards its threat scoring system. Of the half-dozen bugs, 2 were "use after free" flaws -- a type of retention administration põrnikas that tin terminate endure exploited to inject laid on code -- spell a instant distich were pegged yesteryear Google equally "stale pointer" vulnerabilities, about other sort of retention allotment flaw.
As is Google's practice, the fellowship locked downwards its bug-tracking database, blocking access to the technical details of the patched vulnerabilities. Google commonly unlocks the põrnikas entries several weeks, sometimes months later, to give users fourth dimension to update earlier the information goes public.
Google paid out $8,500 inwards bounties to iii dissimilar researchers for finding together with reporting the 6 vulnerabilities. So far this year, Google has cutting bounty checks totaling $58,145.
Frequent-contributor Sergey Glazunov took habitation $7,000 for reporting iv of the bugs patched Thursday, bringing his 2011 bounty full to $20,634. Glazunov has cash inwards one's chips the most prolific of the independent researchers who specialize inwards rooting out Chrome flaws, reporting fourteen of the 54 bugs attributed to outsiders.
Yesterday was the 6th fourth dimension Google patched safety vulnerabilities inwards its browser this year.
Google said the update also added back upwards for the browser's password director on Linux, together with included functioning together with stability fixes. According to the Chrome modify list, it also blacklisted 2 additional SSL (secure socket layer) certificates, the digital certificates that encrypt traffic betwixt users together with sites.
The additions to the SSL blacklist may endure connected to concluding week's theft of several certificates from a Comodo reseller, an final result that prompted Comodo to revoke the stolen certificates. Since then, Google, Mozilla together with Microsoft select each issued updates -- Google was the showtime off the score -- to block the certificates together with warn users if they tried to connect to imitation sites.
Comodo has cited circumstantial bear witness that points to Iran, mayhap the Iranian government, beingness involved inwards the certificate theft.
Google did non instantly respond to questions Fri well-nigh whether the newest additions to Chrome's blacklist were related to the Comodo theft.
Chrome 10 tin terminate endure downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X together with Linux from Google's Web site. Users already running the browser volition endure updated automatically.
All 6 bugs were rated "high," Google's second-most-serious ranking inwards its threat scoring system. Of the half-dozen bugs, 2 were "use after free" flaws -- a type of retention administration põrnikas that tin terminate endure exploited to inject laid on code -- spell a instant distich were pegged yesteryear Google equally "stale pointer" vulnerabilities, about other sort of retention allotment flaw.
As is Google's practice, the fellowship locked downwards its bug-tracking database, blocking access to the technical details of the patched vulnerabilities. Google commonly unlocks the põrnikas entries several weeks, sometimes months later, to give users fourth dimension to update earlier the information goes public.
Google paid out $8,500 inwards bounties to iii dissimilar researchers for finding together with reporting the 6 vulnerabilities. So far this year, Google has cutting bounty checks totaling $58,145.
Frequent-contributor Sergey Glazunov took habitation $7,000 for reporting iv of the bugs patched Thursday, bringing his 2011 bounty full to $20,634. Glazunov has cash inwards one's chips the most prolific of the independent researchers who specialize inwards rooting out Chrome flaws, reporting fourteen of the 54 bugs attributed to outsiders.
Yesterday was the 6th fourth dimension Google patched safety vulnerabilities inwards its browser this year.
Google said the update also added back upwards for the browser's password director on Linux, together with included functioning together with stability fixes. According to the Chrome modify list, it also blacklisted 2 additional SSL (secure socket layer) certificates, the digital certificates that encrypt traffic betwixt users together with sites.
The additions to the SSL blacklist may endure connected to concluding week's theft of several certificates from a Comodo reseller, an final result that prompted Comodo to revoke the stolen certificates. Since then, Google, Mozilla together with Microsoft select each issued updates -- Google was the showtime off the score -- to block the certificates together with warn users if they tried to connect to imitation sites.
Comodo has cited circumstantial bear witness that points to Iran, mayhap the Iranian government, beingness involved inwards the certificate theft.
Google did non instantly respond to questions Fri well-nigh whether the newest additions to Chrome's blacklist were related to the Comodo theft.
Chrome 10 tin terminate endure downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X together with Linux from Google's Web site. Users already running the browser volition endure updated automatically.
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