Google Fixes 10 Bugs In Chrome, Pays $4000 Bounty

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @08:47AM from the $400-flaw dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "It seems Google's bug bounty program is paying some nice dividends, for both sides. Less than two weeks after releasing version 6.0 of its Chrome browser, Google has pushed out another Chrome release, which includes fixes for 10 security bugs, seven of which are rated either critical or high. Google Chrome 6.0.472.59 comes out just 12 days after the last Chrome release, which fixed 14 security bugs. As part of its bug bounty program, Google paid out $4,000 in rewards to researchers who disclosed security flaws in the browser. Most of the security flaws fixed in the new release are in the Windows version of Chrome, but the most serious bug is only in Chrome for Mac."

1 of 114 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Thankless job indeed... by zlogic · 2010-09-15 09:11 · Score: 3, Insightful

Chrome is an open source project, except that some of it is sponsored by Google. So hacking Gnome or the Linux kernel for free is OK (and by the way a lot of Linux kernel code was written by fulltime employees of Red Hat and other companies, just like Chrome) but fixing bugs for Chrome is not? Think of it as Google's Summer of Code, except on a smaller scale.