Several vulnerabilities have just been corrected in Chrome, including one for reading the contents of the RAM of the remote PC.
Google has just released a maintenance version of its web browser Chrome 49 . A version that fixes five security flaws , none of which is classified criticism. It is therefore not possible to use them to take control of the PC with a remote user, the browser sandbox by his office here.
These flaws, however, remain a high level . Also update the application must be carried out without delay (it will be automatic in most cases). Chrome 49.0.2623.108 is available on Windows, OS X and Linux.
Flaws that remain serious
Google pays $ 18 000 to people who discovered these vulnerabilities, to 7500 dollars Wen Xu , Tencent KeenLab to have discovered a flaw to read the contents of the RAM of a PC through the V8 JavaScript engine.
Another correction concerns a flaw discovered at the hacking contest Pown2Own . It allowed to crash the browser via a buffer overflow in the libAngle component (a library to provide OpenGL ES 2.0 for Windows support).
The developers have also used this version of Chrome to make changes to the V8 JavaScript engine, to address multiple vulnerabilities , which had not been detected by the experts from the world of security.
