The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.79 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.  This release fixes issues with Flash games, along with the security fix listed below.

Security fixes and rewards:

Congratulations to PinkiePie (aka PwniePie) for a beautiful piece of work to close out the Pwnium competition!

We’re delighted at the success of Pwnium and the ability to study full exploits. We anticipate landing additional changes and hardening measures for both CVE-2011-3046 and CVE-2011-3047 in the near future. We also believe that both submissions are works of art and deserve wider sharing and recognition. We plan to do technical reports on both Pwnium submissions in the future.

  • [Like a b-b-b-b-boss!!! $60,000] [117620] [117656] Critical CVE-2011-3047: Errant plug-in load and GPU process memory corruption. Credit to PinkiePie.

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.

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.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome