Download Google Chrome 17.0.963.46

Google has released the first stable release of version 17 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome is available in three different versions: stable, beta and dev. Development versions are at an early stage of development and are therefore the least stable. In version 17, the omnibox has been improved, among other things. While you’re still typing in the search term, Google will already fetch the page it thinks you want to see. This makes it appear a bit faster. In addition, downloads are now also examined in order to better serve a user to protect. The complete release notes for this version are below:

Stable Channel Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 17 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Version 17.0.963.46 contains a number of new features including:

• New Extensions APIs
• Updated Omnibox Prerendering
• Download Scanning Protection
• Many other small changes

Security fixes and rewards:
please see the Chromium security page for more details. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix

• [73478] Low CVE-2011-3953: Avoid clipboard monitoring after paste event.
• [92550] Low CVE-2011-3954: Crash with excessive database usage.
• [93106] High CVE-2011-3955: Crash aborting an IndexDB transaction.
• [103630] Low CVE-2011-3956: Incorrect handling of sandboxed origins inside extensions.
• [104056] High CVE-2011-3957: Use after free in PDF garbage collection.
• [105459] High CVE-2011-3958: Bad casts with column spans.
• [106441] High CVE-2011-3959: Buffer overflow in local handling.
• [108416] Medium CVE-2011-3960: Out-of-bounds read in audio decoding.
• [108871] Critical CVE-2011-3961: Race condition after crash of utility process.
• [108901] Medium CVE-2011-3962: Out-of-bounds read in path clipping.
• [109094] Medium CVE-2011-3963: Out-of-bounds read in PDF fax image handling.
• [109245] Low CVE-2011-3964: URL bar confusion after drag + drop.
• [109664] Low CVE-2011-3965: Crash in signature check.
• [109716] High CVE-2011-3966: Use-after-free in stylesheet error handling.
• [109717] Low CVE-2011-3967: Crash with unusual certificate.
• [109743] High CVE-2011-3968: Use after free in CSS handling.
• [110112] High CVE-2011-3969: Use after free in SVG layout.
• [110277] Medium CVE-2011-3970: Out-of-bounds read in libxslt.
• [110374] High CVE-2011-3971: Use-after-free with mousemove events.
• [110559] Medium CVE-2011-3972: Out-of-bounds read in shader translator.

The bugs [105459], [106441], [108416], [108901], [109716], [109743], [110112], [110277], [110374] and [110559] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.