Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 13, 2011 @04:01PM from the return-on-investment dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Google has released version 8.0.552.237 of its Chrome browser, which includes fixes for 16 security vulnerabilities. The company also paid out more than $14,000 in bug bounties for the flaws fixed in this release, including the first maximum reward of $3133.7. The new version of Google Chrome has fixes for 13 high-priority bugs, but the most serious vulnerability the company repaired in the browser is a critical flaw resulting from a stale pointer in the speech handling component of Chrome. That flaw, along with four others, was discovered by researcher Sergey Glazunov, who earned a total of more than $7,000 in rewards for the bugs he reported to Google."

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I'll be filing a bug report soon by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2011-01-13 16:24 · Score: 5, Funny

I've heard that h.264 support is broken in an upcoming release.

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Re:interesting by biryokumaru · 2011-01-13 16:40 · Score: 4, Funny

My Chrome goes to 11.

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Re:Wait a minute... by russotto · 2011-01-13 16:43 · Score: 4, Funny

3,133.7?
Looks suspiciously like 'leet to me.

Way to spot 'em, Captain Obvious.