Google Chrome 29 Fixes 25 Vulnerabilities

Author: Dennis Fisher
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There are 25 fresh security patches in the newest version of Google Chrome, including fixes for a number of high-severity vulnerabilities. Chrome 29 also includes a number of performance enhancements.

There are 25 fresh security patches in the newest version of Google Chrome, including fixes for a number of high-severity vulnerabilities. Chrome 29 also includes a number of performance enhancements.

Google regularly pushes out new versions of its browser every few weeks, and sometimes will only have a handful of security fixes. Chrome 29 is the exception to this, providing a huge number of vulnerability fixes. Three of the fixes in Chrome 29 are for use-after-free vulnerabilities, each of which earned the finder a $1,000 bug bounty.

The list of bugs fixed in Chrome 29 includes:

  • [$1337] [181617] High CVE-2013-2900: Incomplete path sanitization in file handling. Credit to Krystian Bigaj.
  • [$500] [254159] Low CVE-2013-2905: Information leak via overly broad permissions on shared memory files. Credit to Christian Jaeger.
  • [$1337] [257363] High CVE-2013-2901: Integer overflow in ANGLE. Credit to Alex Chapman.
  • [$1000] [260105] High CVE-2013-2902: Use after free in XSLT. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
  • [$1000] [260156] High CVE-2013-2903: Use after free in media element. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
  • [$1000] [260428] High CVE-2013-2904: Use after free in document parsing. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

Chrome users should update their browsers as soon as possible to protect against attacks using these vulnerabilities.

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