Google today released a security-themed Chrome web browser remodeling with spots 28 recorded vulnerabilities, some major adequate to lead to code execution attacks.
The brand-new web browser refresh is now rolling out to Windows, Mac and Linux users as Chrome 100.0.4896.60.
9 of the security defects identified by external researchers are rated high-severity. Use-after-free was the most common kind of vulnerability amongst the problems reported externally, followed by inappropriate application.
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Google said it paid out $52,000 in bug bounty rewards to the reporting researchers, however the last quantity could be much higher, as the business has yet to identify the benefits to be distributed for half of the externally reported vulnerabilities.
The highest bug bounty benefit was distributed to Wei Yuan of MoyunSec VLab for a medium intensity use-after-free defect in Shopping Cart.
Chrome 100 gets here less than a week after Google released an emergency situation fix to attend to a zero-day vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine. There have actually been only two recorded zero-days in Chrome this year.
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