Chrome 151 Patches 370 Vulnerabilities

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Google on Wednesday announced the release of Chrome 151 to the stable channel with patches for 370 vulnerabilities.

The update resolves seven critical-severity bugs, including four use-after-free issues in Compositing, Views, Skia, and Ozone.

Chrome 151 also resolves two critical-severity insufficient validation of untrusted input flaws in Dawn and ANGLE, and a critical race condition in Updater.

More than a dozen of the 71 high-severity defects addressed with the update are use-after-free vulnerabilities affecting Navigation, V8, Loader, Views, Autofill, Input, DataTransfer, DOM, ANGLE, Audio, Updater, and Media.

Other types of patched high-severity bugs include inappropriate implementation, insufficient policy enforcement, insufficient validation of untrusted input, uninitialized use, integer overflow, out-of-bounds read/write, type confusion, policy bypass, race condition, object lifecycle issue, and cryptographic flaw.

The fresh Chrome update also resolves 170 medium-severity weaknesses and 122 low-severity security defects.

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