Google Sanitizes Chrome 15 for Memory Flaws

Google is now out with Chrome 15, fixing a large number of flaws found by third party researchers who are being paid bug bounties for their efforts. Ever since the bounty program started, Google is fixing over 27 flaws and have paid $26,511 in bug bounties to security researchers.

Ten flaws fixed in the Chrome 15 updates were discovered with an open source project called, AddressSanitizer. The AddressSanitizer is a memory error detector for C/C++ and is able to help identify out-of-bounds access issues as well as use-after-free memory conditions. Looking beyond security fixes, Google has also made some incremental feature improvements with Chrome 15. There is a new Tab page layout that shows a user's most visited sites. Additionally, Google has updated the look for the Chrome app store.