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 6 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.
[571480] Medium CVE-2016-1626: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to anonymous, working with HP's Zero Day Initiative.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work:
Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer or Control Flow Integrity.
A list of 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.
Krishna Govind
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