[$5000][642496] High CVE-2016-5177: Use after free in V8. Credit to Anonymous


We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.


As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
  • [651092] CVE-2016-5178: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.


A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome


A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Richard Bustamante
Google Chrome



A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome



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A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Richard Bustamante
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A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Richard Bustamante
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A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
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This update includes these security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers, including those not already mentioned in recent release notes. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information


[$5000][641101] High CVE-2016-5170: Use after free in Blink. Credit to Anonymous
[$7500][643357] High CVE-2016-5171: Use after free in Blink. Credit to Anonymous
[$5000][616386] Medium CVE-2016-5172: Arbitrary Memory Read in v8. Credit to Choongwoo Han
[$3000][468931] Medium CVE-2016-5173: Extension resource access. Credit to Anonymous
[$1000][579934] Medium CVE-2016-5174: Popup not correctly suppressed. Credit to Andrey Kovalev (@L1kvID) Yandex Security Team
[$n/a][595838] Medium CVE-2016-5176: SafeBrowsing bypass. Credit to Lokihardt working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative


We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.


As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Control Flow Integrity or LibFuzzer.


A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
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Some highlights of these changes are:

Security Fixes:
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
  • [635879] Medium CVE-2016-5169 Format String Vulnerability in Chrome OS

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).


Ketaki Deshpande
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If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Help section of the Chrome menu (3 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).

Ketaki Deshpande
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A list of changes in this build is available in the log.  Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Richard Bustamante
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A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
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A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Richard Bustamante
Google Chrome
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