14 DAY TRIAL // Shortly after Sergey Glazunov found the vulnerabilities in Google Chrome as part of the Pwnium bug-finding competition, Sundar Pichai, senior vice-president at Google, revealed that the issues would be addressed fast. It turns out that the company has already patched up the flaws disclosed by the Russian expert.
Threat Post informs that the universal cross-site scripting (UXSS) and the bad history navigation bugs that earned the researcher $60,000 (45,000 EUR) have already been fixed.
As a result, Google updated the Stable channel of Chrome to 17.0.963.78 for all platforms.
So far, Glazunov was the only one to enter the Pwnium contests and by the looks of things, much of the $1 million (744,000 EUR) prize money offered by Google will remain unclaimed, especially since demonstrating that Chrome is fully compromised is not something that can be easily achieved. Google Chrome 17.0.963.78 is available for download here.