Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix


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Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix

IE, Firefox, Safari users don't get Flash Player update until later today

By Gregg Keizer

November 4, 2010 01:50 PM ET

Computerworld - Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, all of them rated as high-level threats by the company's security team.

The patched version of Chrome also included an update to Adobe's Flash Player, giving Google users an early fix for a critical flaw that hackers have been exploiting with rigged PDF documents. Adobe plans to release that Flash patch to users of other browsers later today.

The dozen flaws fixed today in Chrome 7.0.517.44 include a pair related to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), a collection of XML specifications for describing two-dimensional vector graphics; one in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine; and three involving aspects of the browser's text handling.

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