14 DAY TRIAL // Google has just updated the stable channel of its Chrome browser with new versions of the application for Windows, Linux, and Mac that address recently found security vulnerabilities.
Google Chrome 33.0.1750.152 for Mac and Linux and 33.0.1750.154 for Windows are mostly supposed to address flaws discovered during the Pwn2Own hacking contest and which allowed security researchers to break into Google’s browser on the first days of the event.
“Congratulations to VUPEN and an Anonymous submission for winning the Pwn2Own competition,” Google says at the beginning of today’s new announcement, adding that it worked together with the security researchers to patch the found vulnerabilities.
VUPEN’s researchers were rewarded with $100,000 (€72,000) for code execution outside the sandbox that led to use-after-free in Blink bindings and a Windows clipboard vulnerability and with an additional $60,000 (€43,000) for finding flaws that resulted in memory corruption in V8 and directory traversal issue.
All these vulnerabilities have already been patched in the new versions of Chrome, but Google says that it’ll continue to work with researchers to enhance the security of its browsers.
Given the fact that these new patches are aimed at the stable build of Chrome, all users are strongly recommended to get the new releases as soon as possible to avoid any potential hacks that could be based on the found exploits.
Download Google Chrome 33.0.1750.154 for Windows