Friday, January 27, 2012

Google squashes security bugs in Chrome, pays over $6,000 in bounties



Google has plugged a number of serious vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser and paid out $6,133.70 in bug bounties.

 

One of the vulnerabilities is classified as “critical” by Google. It involves a use-after-free flaw in Safe Browsing navigation. Chamal de Dilva was paid a hefty $3,133.70 for finding that bug (not sure what the 70 cents were for). That flaw was actually fixed in the previous update but was not included in the release notes.        More