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Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.91

This update has been posted originally on Google Chrome releases. The Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.91 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeFrame platforms.

This version fixes several issues including:

  • No audio from Flash content when speaker configuration is set to Quadraphonic (Issue: 159924) 
  • Aw, Snap renderer crash on Windows Server 2003 (Issue: 160559) 

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

Occasionally, we issue special rewards for bugs outside of Chrome, particularly where the bug is very severe and/or we are able to partially work around the issue:

  • [$1000] [152746] High CVE-2012-5131: Corrupt rendering in the Apple OSX driver for Intel GPUs. Credit to Justin Drake. 

And back to your regular scheduled rewards:

  •  [$1000] [156567] High CVE-2012-5133: Use-after-free in SVG filters. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$500] [148638] Medium CVE-2012-5130: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 
  • [155711] Low CVE-2012-5132: Browser crash with chunked encoding. Credit to Attila Szász. 
  • [158249] High CVE-2012-5134: Buffer underflow in libxml. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla). 
  • [159165] Medium CVE-2012-5135: Use-after-free with printing. Credit to Fermin Serna of Google Security Team. 
  • [159829] Medium CVE-2012-5136: Bad cast in input element handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno). 

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log.  Interested in hopping on the stable channel?  Find out how.  If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. 

Karen Grunberg 
Google Chrome

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