nsane.forums Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Google has shelled out more than $10,000 in bounties for the latest batch of high-risk security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser. The company released Google Chrome 5.0.375.127 with patches for 9 security holes and a workaround for a Windows kernel bug, paying $10,011 in rewards to the hackers who reported the issues. The update is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.Here are the details from Google’s Jason Kersey: [$1337] [45400] Critical Memory corruption with file dialog. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.[$500] [49596] High Memory corruption with SVGs. Credit to wushi of team509.[$500] [49628] High Bad cast with text editing. Credit to wushi of team509.[$1000] [49964] High Possible address bar spoofing with history bug. Credit to Mike Taylor.[$2000] [50515] [51835] High Memory corruption in MIME type handling. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.[$1337] [50553] Critical Crash on shutdown due to notifications bug. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.[51146] Medium Stop omnibox autosuggest if the user might be about to type a password. Credit to Robert Hansen.[$1000] [51654] High Memory corruption with Ruby support. Credit to kuzzcc.[$1000] [51670] High Memory corruption with Geolocation support. Credit to kuzzcc. An additional $1337 was paid to Marc Schoenefeld for helping with a security workaround for a Windows kernel bug [51070]. Google and Mozilla pay bounties for security vulnerabilities in its products. Microsoft says it has no plans to pay hackers for reporting security problems. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferocity Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 $1337 :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 $1337 :lol:Ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted August 22, 2010 Administrator Share Posted August 22, 2010 Pays well to find software bugs, no? :fear: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 @LiteI found a bug in your firmware, what are you going to pay me?(Note: first time I make a 'Lite-is-a-bot'-joke :rolleyes:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Owl Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Good thing I upgraded to 5.0.375.127 today. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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