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Google Issues Quick Chrome 150 Patch to Fix 27 Vulnerabilities

Expanded internal tooling appears to be surfacing many more memory-safety bugs driving faster cross-platform patching.

Overview

  • Google released Chrome 150 desktop and mobile builds this week that close 27 security flaws, with the desktop Stable builds numbered 150.0.7871.114 and 150.0.7871.115.
  • Two of the fixes address critical use-after-free bugs in the Ozone and Views components, which are memory-safety errors that can sometimes allow attackers to run code if chained with other flaws.
  • Google says it found 24 of the 27 issues internally and reports no known active exploitation of the newly patched flaws.
  • Only three vulnerabilities were reported by outside researchers, who received a combined $3,000 in bounty payments, underscoring a shift toward more internal discovery.
  • Users should update Chrome now through Help → About Google Chrome or restart the browser to pick up the fixes, and Google plans further rapid releases such as Chrome 151 later this month as it continues a broad remediation push that has fixed over 1,400 bugs since April.