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Google patches $310K worth of Chrome, Chrome OS bugs
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246998/Google_patches_310K_worth_of_Chrome_Chrome_OS_bugs?source=rss_keyword_edpicks&google_editors_picks=trueComputerworld - Google on Friday patched several vulnerabilities in Chrome and Chrome OS within 48 hours of their disclosures at last week's Pwn2Own and Pwnium hacking contests.
While all four targeted browsers -- Chrome, Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- fell to researchers at the cash prize contest, Google's was the only one to have fixed flaws as of Sunday.
Four vulnerabilities were patched in Chrome to close the holes used by a team from Vupen -- the French vulnerability research firm and seller of zero-day bugs to government and law enforcement agencies -- and an anonymous researcher. Both had cracked Chrome on Thursday afternoon at Pwn2Own, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)-sponsored hacking contest.
Google posted its usual terse descriptions of the four bugs exploited by Vupen and the unnamed researcher in a short note about an available update for Chrome 33.
