Google Updates Chrome, Mitigates Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Recently, Google updated Chrome Stable Channel to 12.0.742.112 for all supporting platforms. The latest release by the developer incorporates an updated version of Adobe Flash Player (10.3). Google is known for bringing frequent updates for the browser. The latest update comes two weeks after the previous update. The company has also mitigated seven security vulnerabilities. Google has classified six of the addressed vulnerabilities as high, and one as medium risk vulnerability. The update resolves a use-after-free issue in SVG font handling, bad bounds check in v8, lifetime and re-entrancy issues in the HTML parser, use-after-free in text selection and memory corruption issue in Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) parsing. The vendor has also patched a use-after-free issue in SVG use element and out-of-bounds read issue in Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) string handling. Miaubiz won $4500 as reward for reporting five of the high risk security issues addressed in Chrome.

Web browsers are susceptible to security issues. While Microsoft follows a monthly cycle of security updates, Google follows a more ...
... frequent cycle of updates. The latest update follows launch of Firefox 5 by Mozilla. Mozilla has decided to discontinue support for Firefox 4, which has apparently triggered adverse reactions from enterprises, who expect a more stable environment for their applications.

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