Author Archives: Abdul Syed

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 74.0.3729.108 for Windows, Mac, and, Linux.

A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 74.0.3729.91 for Windows, Mac, and, Linux.

A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 74.0.3729.91 for Windows, Mac, and, Linux.

A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 73.0.3683.103 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

A list of all changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 74.0.3729.40 for Windows, Mac, and, Linux.


A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 73.0.3683.86 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

A list of all changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Abdul Syed
Google Chrome



Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 73 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 73.0.3683.75 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 73.

Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

This update includes 60 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

[$TBD][913964] High CVE-2019-5787: Use after free in Canvas. Reported by Zhe Jin（金哲），Luyao Liu(刘路遥) from Chengdu Security Response Center of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd on 2018-12-11
[$N/A][925864] High CVE-2019-5788: Use after free in FileAPI. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2019-01-28
[$N/A][921581] High CVE-2019-5789: Use after free in WebMIDI. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2019-01-14
[$7500][914736] High CVE-2019-5790: Heap buffer overflow in V8. Reported by Dimitri Fourny (Blue Frost Security) on 2018-12-13
[$1000][926651] High CVE-2019-5791: Type confusion in V8. Reported by Choongwoo Han of Naver Corporation on 2019-01-30
[$500][914983] High CVE-2019-5792: Integer overflow in PDFium. Reported by pdknsk on 2018-12-13
[$TBD][937487] Medium CVE-2019-5793: Excessive permissions for private API in Extensions. Reported by Jun Kokatsu, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on 2019-03-01
[$TBD][935175] Medium CVE-2019-5794: Security UI spoofing. Reported by Juno Im of Theori on 2019-02-24
[$N/A][919643] Medium CVE-2019-5795: Integer overflow in PDFium. Reported by pdknsk on 2019-01-07
[$N/A][918861] Medium CVE-2019-5796: Race condition in Extensions. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2019-01-03
[$N/A][916523] Medium CVE-2019-5797: Race condition in DOMStorage. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2018-12-19
[$N/A][883596] Medium CVE-2019-5798: Out of bounds read in Skia. Reported by Tran Tien Hung (@hungtt28) of Viettel Cyber Security on 2018-09-13
[$1000][905301] Medium CVE-2019-5799: CSP bypass with blob URL. Reported by sohalt on 2018-11-14
[$1000][894228] Medium CVE-2019-5800: CSP bypass with blob URL. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2018-10-10
[$500][921390] Medium CVE-2019-5801: Incorrect Omnibox display on iOS. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2019-01-13
[$500][632514] Medium CVE-2019-5802: Security UI spoofing. Reported by Ronni Skansing on 2016-07-28
[$1000][909865] Low CVE-2019-5803: CSP bypass with Javascript URLs'. Reported by Andrew Comminos of Facebook on 2018-11-28
[$500][933004] Low CVE-2019-5804: Command line command injection on Windows. Reported by Joshua Graham of TSS on 2019-02-17

We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
  • [940992] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives
Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.

Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Thank you,
Abdul Syed

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 73.0.3683.75 for Windows, Mac, and, Linux.


A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The beta channel has been updated to 73.0.3683.67 for Windows, Mac, and, Linux.

A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Abdul Syed
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 72.0.3626.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.


This update includes 1 security fix. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

[$N/A][936448] High CVE-2019-5786: Use-after-free in FileReader

We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.


A list of all changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Abdul Syed
Google Chrome