Author Archives: Abdul Syed

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

The dev channel has been updated to 66.0.3343.3 for Mac and Linux, and 66.0.3343.3/.4 for Windows.

A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 64.0.3282.140 for Windows, Mac and Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

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 1 security fix found by our ongoing internal security work:

[808163] 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.

A list of all changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Abdul Syed

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 64.0.3282.140 for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. 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.

Abdul Syed

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 64 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 64.0.3282.119 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 64.

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

[$3000][780450] High CVE-2018-6031: Use after free in PDFium. Reported by Anonymous on 2017-11-01
[$2000][787103] High CVE-2018-6032: Same origin bypass in Shared Worker. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2017-11-20
[$1000][793620] High CVE-2018-6033: Race when opening downloaded files. Reported by Juho Nurminen on 2017-12-09
[$4000][784183] Medium CVE-2018-6034: Integer overflow in Blink. Reported by Tobias Klein (www.trapkit.de) on 2017-11-12
[$2500][797500] Medium CVE-2018-6035: Insufficient isolation of devtools from extensions. Reported by Rob Wu on 2017-12-23
[$2000][789952] Medium CVE-2018-6036: Integer underflow in WebAssembly. Reported by The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on 2017-11-30
[$1000][753645] Medium CVE-2018-6037: Insufficient user gesture requirements in autofill. Reported by Paul Stone of Context Information Security on 2017-08-09
[$1000][774174] Medium CVE-2018-6038: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL. Reported by cloudfuzzer on 2017-10-12
[$1000][775527] Medium CVE-2018-6039: XSS in DevTools. Reported by Juho Nurminen on 2017-10-17
[$1000][778658] Medium CVE-2018-6040: Content security policy bypass. Reported by WenXu Wu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab on 2017-10-26
[$500][760342] Medium CVE-2018-6041: URL spoof in Navigation. Reported by Luan Herrera on 2017-08-29
[$500][773930] Medium CVE-2018-6042: URL spoof in OmniBox. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2017-10-12
[$500][785809] Medium CVE-2018-6043: Insufficient escaping with external URL handlers. Reported by 0x09AL on 2017-11-16
[$TBD][797497] Medium CVE-2018-6045: Insufficient isolation of devtools from extensions. Reported by Rob Wu on 2017-12-23
[$TBD][798163] Medium CVE-2018-6046: Insufficient isolation of devtools from extensions. Reported by Rob Wu on 2017-12-31
[$TBD][799847] Medium CVE-2018-6047: Cross origin URL leak in WebGL. Reported by Masato Kinugawa on 2018-01-08
[$500][763194] Low CVE-2018-6048: Referrer policy bypass in Blink. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2017-09-08
[$500][771848] Low CVE-2017-15420: URL spoofing in Omnibox. Reported by Drew Springall (@_aaspring_) on 2017-10-05
[$500][774438] Low CVE-2018-6049: UI spoof in Permissions. Reported by WenXu Wu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab on 2017-10-13
[$500][774842] Low CVE-2018-6050: URL spoof in OmniBox. Reported by Jonathan Kew on 2017-10-15
[$N/a][441275] Low CVE-2018-6051: Referrer leak in XSS Auditor. Reported by Antonio Sanso (@asanso) on 2014-12-11
[$N/A][615608] Low CVE-2018-6052: Incomplete no-referrer policy implementation. Reported by Tanner Emek on 2016-05-28
[$N/A][758169] Low CVE-2018-6053: Leak of page thumbnails in New Tab Page. Reported by Asset Kabdenov on 2017-08-23
[$N/A][797511] Low CVE-2018-6054: Use after free in WebUI. Reported by Rob Wu on 2017-12-24

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: