Stable Update: Fix Google Chrome not Starting

Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 10:50

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Google Chrome's Stable channel has been updated to 3.0.195.33 to fix a potential issue that could cause Google Chrome to stop working and a security issue.

This release removes a dependency on a Windows library (t2embed.dll) that is not required by Google Chrome. If that library is missing or the user does not have permission to read it, earlier versions of Google Chrome would fail silently.

Security Fix:
CVE-2009-2816 Custom headers incorrectly sent for CORS OPTIONS request

A malicious web site operator could set custom HTTP headers on cross-origin OPTIONS requests.


Severity: Low. The majority of users are unlikely to be impacted by this issue.
Credit: Apple Security
Mitigations:
  • A victim would need to visit a page under an attacker's control.
  • The OPTIONS attribute is not widely supported by servers.

Mark Larson, Google Chrome Team

10 comments:

Manish said...

Mark - Is there any timeline by when Chrome 4.x will be released to stable channel? I think it might be a good idea for chrome to setup a web page which provides timeline for each important feature like RSS etc. This way the users will not be required to go through the bugs to look for the updates.

Arley said...

Hey Manish Google Chrome 4 wont be released until next year I predict around March because version 3 came out not too long ago

Jon said...

Yes, extensions will presumably the big new feature of v4, and no way are they mature enough to be released any time soon.

Philipp said...

@Arley, i think you dont know the google chrome team

Version 4 is already beta

stable will be out in december, maybe january

but never march

Dennis said...

Thanks for the update!

@Jon - yea, extensions aren't even in the Beta channel yet. Extensions still got a long way to go.

Sammy said...

Apple Security? what is that supposed to mean? is that Webkit being updated by apple?

Alex Chitu said...

"Apple employees have contributed the majority of work on WebKit since it became an independent project. Apple uses WebKit for Safari on Mac OS X, iPhone and Windows; on the former two it is also a system framework and used by many other applications. Apple's contribution has included extensive work on standards compliance, Web compatibility, performance, security, robustness, testing infrastructure and development of major new features."

http://bit.ly/4nIOcq

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