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Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. New business model: by Fluffeh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Convince Microsoft to adopt similar bug strategy.
    2) Start using software as it was designed to be used...
    3) PROFIT!!

    Yes, that's right. No step 4.

    *sips coffee*

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  2. Google won this round... by NFN_NLN · · Score: 4, Insightful

    14K sounds like a pretty good deal for Google. That's less than 2 months of salary for even an intermediate tester.

  3. Re:I'll be filing a bug report soon by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

    That's a feature.