In yet another update, Chrome stable and beta channels have been updated to 10.0.648.204. The latest update mitigates six vulnerabilities identified by various security researchers, and resolves performance and stability issues. The update also includes support for password manager on Linux.
The release patches a buffer error in base string handling first identified by Alex Turpin. Security professionals at Google have resolved stale pointer in handling of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and SVG text handling, both identified by Sergey Glazunov. The update fixes a DOM tree corruption issue with broken node parentage. Use-after-free issues in the frame loader and HTML collection have been mitigated in the new Chrome channel. While the issue with frame loader was detected by Sławomir Błażek, Sergey Glazunov identified the issue with HTML collection. Use-after-free issue takes place, when memory is deallocated, but regained later. All the six vulnerabilities have been rated as high-risk. Google rates bugs as critical, high, medium and low. According to the company