New Chrome Version Fixes Bugs

By Digital Trends Staff July 21, 2009

New Chrome Version Fixes Bugs

With all the talk of Chrome OS, it’s easy to forget that Google also has a browser of the same name. Now it’s released a new version, 2.0.172.37, to the Beta and Stable channels, that fixes several minor bugs, including an update of the V8 Javascript engine.

More importantly, the new version plugs a pair of major security holes. One that had been found by the Google security team, allowed malicious code exploitation within the Chrome tab sandbox, and the other, a memory corruption in the browser tab process, could have been used by an attack to execute arbitrary code causing a crash of the browser tabs, which in turn would create another security hole for attacker to run code with the logged-on user privileges.

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