Download Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97

Google has released an update to version 23 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 23 is, among other things, hardware acceleration of video by the graphics card under Windows, which among other things saves energy. It has also become easier to individually adjust the permissions for a web page. In addition to the usual bug fixes and security updates, this update also includes a new version of the Adobe Flash player.

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.97 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeFrame platforms. This build contains the following fixes:

• Some texts in a Website Settings popup are trimmed (Issue: 159156)
• Linux: selection renders white text on white bg in apps (Issue: 158422)
• some plugins stopped working (Issue: 159896)
• Windows8: Unable to launch system level chrome after self destructing user-level chrome (Issue: 158632)

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.

• [158204] High CVE-2012-5139: Use-after-free with visibility events.
• [159429] High CVE-2012-5140: Use after free in URL loader.
• [160456] Medium CVE-2012-5141: Limit Chromoting client plug-in instantiation.
• [160803] Critical CVE-2012-5142: Crash in history navigation.
• [160926] Medium CVE-2012-5143: Integer overflow in PPAPI image buffers.
• [161639] High CVE-2012-5144: Stack corruption in AAC decoding.

This build also has a new version of Adobe Flash. You can find the details here.