Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 119 to the stable channel with patches for 15 vulnerabilities, including 13 reported by external researchers.
Three of the externally reported bugs have a severity rating of ‘high’, and are described as inappropriate implementation in Payments (CVE-2023-5480), insufficient data validation in USB (CVE-2023-5482), and integer overflow in USB (CVE-2023-5849).
Google says in its advisory that it has paid out $16,000 for the first flaw and $11,000 for the second, and that it has yet to determine the amount to be awarded for the third issue.
Of the remaining 10 security defects reported by external researchers, eight are rated ‘medium severity’, and two have a severity rating of ‘low’.
Half of the medium-severity bugs are use-after-free issues impacting Chrome’s Printing, Profiles, Reading Mode, and Side Panel components. The other half includes two incorrect security UI issues and two inappropriate implementation flaws in Downloads.
The low-severity defects addressed this week include an inappropriate implementation in WebApp Provider and an incorrect security UI in ‘Picture In Picture’, Google notes.
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