Download Google Chrome 21.0.1180.89

Google has released an update to version 21 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome is available in three different versions: stable, beta and dev, and this time the stable version has been updated. New in version 21 is that the browser now has access to the microphone and webcam without plug-ins, of course only after permission from the user. There is also improved support for Google Cloud Print, gamepads and retinascreens of Macs. Version 21.0.1180.89 should fix several bugs and also has several security updates on board.

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.89 for Linux, Mac, Windows and Chrome Frame. This build fixes the following issues:

• Several Pepper Flash fixes (Issue 140577, 144107, 140498, 142479).
• Microphone issues with tinychat.com (Issue: 143192)
• devtools regression with “save as” of edited source (issue: 141180)
• mini ninjas shaders fail (Issue: 142705)
• page randomly turns red/green gradient boxes (Issue: 110343)

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.

• [121347] Medium CVE-2012-2865: Out-of-bounds read in line breaking.
• [134897] High CVE-2012-2866: Bad cast with run-ins.
• [135485] Low CVE-2012-2867: Browser crash with SPDY.
• [136881] Medium CVE-2012-2868: Race condition with workers and XHR.
• [137778] High CVE-2012-2869: Avoid stale buffer in URL loading.
• [138672] [140368] Low CVE-2012-2870: Lower severity memory management issues in XPath.
• [138673] High CVE-2012-2871: Bad cast in XSL transforms.
• [142956] Medium CVE-2012-2872: XSS in SSL interstitial.