Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.99 for Windows and 54.0.2840.98 for Mac. Linux has additional changes in the pipeline and is planned to be pushed tomorrow. For all platforms this 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 4 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

[$5500][643948] High CVE-2016-5199: Heap corruption in FFmpeg. Credit to Paul Mehta
[$5000][658114] High CVE-2016-5200: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Credit to Choongwoo Han
[$1000][660678] Medium CVE-2016-5201: Info leak in extensions. Credit to Rob Wu

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:
  • [662843] CVE-2016-5202: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, or libFuzzer.



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.



Richard Bustamante
Google Chrome