Chrome 150 fixes almost 400 safety flaws, together with 15 crucial ones
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In abstract:
- PCWorld experiences that Chrome 150.0.7871.46/47 fixes almost 400 safety vulnerabilities, together with 15 crucial flaws largely involving ‘use-after-free’ points.
- Google found 358 flaws internally whereas exterior researchers contributed extra findings, incomes $90,000 in safety bounties for his or her efforts.
- Customers ought to manually replace Chrome by ‘Assist → About Google Chrome’ to make sure safety in opposition to these vulnerabilities if automated updates haven’t occurred.
Chrome simply launched model 150.0.7871.46/47 for Home windows and macOS and 150.0.7871.46 for Linux to the secure channel. With it, the builders have fastened just below 400 safety vulnerabilities, a few of that are thought of crucial. In response to Google, not one of the patched flaws are being exploited within the wild but.
Within the Chrome Releases weblog submit, Daniel Yip lists 382 safety vulnerabilities which have been fastened, stating that Google found 358 of those by itself. The remaining flaws have been recognized and reported by exterior safety researchers. Google has awarded these researchers a complete of almost $90,000 in bounties.
Fifteen of the vulnerabilities are categorised as crucial: CVE-2026-13774 to CVE-2026-13788. The vast majority of these crucial flaws are use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities in varied elements, such because the Daybreak graphics library. Three vulnerabilities will be exploited resulting from inadequate validation of enter knowledge (together with consumer enter).
An additional 67 safety vulnerabilities are categorised as excessive danger. Of the remaining vulnerabilities, 169 are thought of medium danger and 131 low danger. This time, the most important general class is “inappropriate implementation” (accounting for 82 of them) adopted by “inadequate validation” of inputs (79 of them) and “use-after-free” vulnerabilities (72 of them). Given the sheer variety of flaws fastened, it’s seemingly AI was concerned find and presumably even addressing them.
Chrome often updates routinely when a brand new model is accessible. You’ll be able to manually test for updates through the menu Assist → About Google Chrome (or go to Settings → About Google Chrome).
Google has additionally launched Chrome for Android model 150.0.7871.63 this week, having launched Chrome for iOS model 150.0.7871.51 final week. The Android model addresses the identical vulnerabilities because the desktop variations. The Prolonged Secure Channel (ESC) for Home windows and macOS now additionally contains Chromium model 150.0.7871.47.
The discharge of Chrome 151 is scheduled for the tip of July.
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This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
