Showing posts with label 000 dollars in bounties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 000 dollars in bounties. Show all posts

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