Stable Channel Update
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 44 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 44.0.2403.89 contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:
- A number of new apps/extension APIs
- Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
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 44.
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 43 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.
[$TBD][461858] High CVE-2015-1274: Settings allowed executable files to run immediately after download. Credit to andrewm.bpi.
[$7500][462843] High CVE-2015-1275: UXSS in Chrome for Android. Credit to WangTao(neobyte) of Baidu X-Team.
[$7500][504011] High CVE-2015-1286: UXSS in blink. Credit to anonymous.
[$TBD][505374] High CVE-2015-1290: Memory corruption in V8. Credit to Yongjun Liu of NSFOCUS Security Team.
[$TBD][505374] High CVE-2015-1290: Memory corruption in V8. Credit to Yongjun Liu of NSFOCUS Security Team.
[$1000][444573] Medium CVE-2015-1270: Uninitialized memory read in ICU. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[$500][451456] Medium CVE-2015-1272: Use-after-free related to unexpected GPU process termination. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
[$500][479162] Low CVE-2015-1288: Spell checking dictionaries fetched over HTTP. Credit to mike@michaelruddy.com.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Penny MacNeil
Google Chrome