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Google Releases Google Chrome

Mac/Linux 27.0.1453.93 m
Win ONLY 27.0.1453.94 m

Original release date: May 21st, 2013

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Stable Channel Release
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 27.0.1453.93 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including:

• Web pages load 5% faster on average
  
• chrome.syncFileSystem API
  
• Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions. Please see the Help Center for more information on our updated policies.

Stable Channel Update (HOT)

The Stable channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.94 only for Windows. This release fixes a GPU-related crash. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)

This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):

• [$1000] [235638] High CVE-2013-2837: Use-after-free in SVG. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.
  
• [$500] [235311] Medium CVE-2013-2838: Out-of-bounds read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.
  
• [$1500] [230176] High CVE-2013-2839: Bad cast in clipboard handling. Credit to Jon of MWR InfoSecurity.
  
• [$1000] [230117] High CVE-2013-2840: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Nils of MWR InfoSecurity.
  
• [$1000] [227350] High CVE-2013-2841: Use-after-free in Pepper resource handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
  
• [$2000] [226696] High CVE-2013-2842: Use-after-free in widget handling. Credit to Cyril Cattiaux.
  [$1000] [222000] High CVE-2013-2843: Use-after-free in speech handling. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
  
• [$1000] [196393] High CVE-2013-2844: Use-after-free in style resolution. Credit to Sachin Shinde (@cons0ul).
  
• [$3133.7] [188092] [179522] [222136] [188092] High CVE-2013-2845: Memory safety issues in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  
• [$1000] [177620] High CVE-2013-2846: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
  
• [$1000] [176692] High CVE-2013-2847: Use-after-free race condition with workers. Credit to Collin Payne.
  
• [$500] [176137] Medium CVE-2013-2848: Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor. Credit to Egor Homakov.
  
• [171392] Low CVE-2013-2849: Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste. Credit to Mario Heiderich.

In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:

• [241595] High CVE-2013-2836: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

This build also contains a new Adobe Flash build. You can find more information here.

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg
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Steve

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.110 m for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms.

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)

This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):

• [Windows only] [$2000] [243339] High CVE-2013-2854: Bad handle passed to renderer. Credit to Collin Payne.
  
• [$500] [242322] Medium CVE-2013-2855: Memory corruption in dev tools API. Credit to “daniel.zulla”.
  
• [$1000] [242224] High CVE-2013-2856: Use-after-free in input handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  
• [$1000] [240124] High CVE-2013-2857: Use-after-free in image handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  
• [$500] [239897] High CVE-2013-2858: Use-after-free in HTML5 Audio. Credit to “cdel921”.
  
• [$1500] [237022] High CVE-2013-2859: Cross-origin namespace pollution. Credit to “bobbyholley”.
  
• [$1337] [225546] High CVE-2013-2860: Use-after-free with workers accessing database APIs. Credit to Collin Payne.
  
• [$1000] [209604] High CVE-2013-2861: Use-after-free with SVG. Credit to miaubiz.
  
• [$1000] [161077] High CVE-2013-2862: Memory corruption in Skia GPU handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  
• [232633] Critical CVE-2013-2863: Memory corruption in SSL socket handling. Credit to Sebastien Marchand of the Chromium development community.
  
• [239134] High CVE-2013-2864: Bad free in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind, both from Google Security Team.

In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:

• [246389] High CVE-2013-2865: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg

Download and install Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a free web browser that takes just seconds to install.

See step-by-step instructions

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Be sure to check out the Getting Started Guide to learn more about using Google Chrome.

Steve

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Flash Player Update for Stable Channel (Chrome 27) users.
Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:13 AM PDT

We are currently updating Flash Player to 11.7.700.225 for Windows and Mac to all Stable channel (Chrome 27) users.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

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Google Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Android Update
Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:45 PM PDT

The Chrome for Android Beta channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.45. This release has a number of crash fixes as well as the following fixes:

• 244018: <video> non-functional on Transformer TF101 / Acer Iconia / Motorola Xoom
  
• 245349: Grey patch/bar displayed while scrolling m.nytimes.com
  
• 196702: Searching from google.com stays @google.com page instead of search results URL
  
• 239912: Align error page styles
  
• 241372: Page goes blank upon changing the device orientation in FIP mode

Known issues:

• 247030: 'Starting download...' toast displayed too soon when downloading a PDF with Flywheel enabled
  
• 243602: Page jumps up and down when loaded in landscape mode
  
• 239685: White flash when creating NTP

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update
Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:15 PM PDT

The Beta channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.44 for Windows, Mac, and Chrome Frame, and 28.0.1500.45 for Linux. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log.

For more information about features coming to Chrome, check out the Chrome Blog.

Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome

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