Google released Chrome 11, patching 27 bugs

On April 27, 2011, Google patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome by bringing the browser to version 11 running on Windows, Mac and Linux. The $ 16,500 bonus was paid by the company to researchers who reported the majority of the errors.

Of the 27 flaws of the update on April 27, 2011, no vulnerabilities were rated " serious " - the error level could allow an attacker to escape the "sandbox" anti-exploit mechanism of Chrome (Google patched 3 serious vulnerabilities this year). There are 18 "high" ranked vulnerabilities (the second most serious in Google's 4-level system); 6 labeled "medium" and 3 "low" errors.

There are five flaws identified as "stale pointer " errors - the term describes the vulnerabilities in the application's memory allocation code (the application in this case is Chrome). Google has patched many stale pointer errors in the past 4 months.

Other patched errors this time can be used by attackers to fake the address bar content - an error often exploited by fraudsters and identity theft - or to attack the browser with files SVG malicious.

This time, Google spent $ 16,500 (~ 346 million) to reward 11 researchers who searched for and reported 17 vulnerabilities. So this year, Google spent more than $ 77,000 (~ 1.6 billion) public bonus to detect errors.

Along with security updates, Google has also officially switched Chrome browser to version 11. The upgrade to Chrome 11 took place six weeks after Google officially released version 10. Google said, Chrome 11 has More than 3,700 changes but the most prominent is the speech input feature.

Chrome 11 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Google's website. Users running this browser will be automatically updated.