Download Google Chrome 24.0.1312.56

Google has released an update to version 24 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 24 includes support for MathML, which can display mathematical notation. There are also improvements in stability and speed, the necessary security updates have been made and this version contains a newer version of the Flash player. This update also includes the following changes and improvements:

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.56 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms. This build contains the following fixes:

• Fixed performance of mouse wheel scrolling. [Issue: 160122]
• Fixed visited links regression. [Issue: 160025]
• Fixed windows installation when installed as admin. [Issue: 166473]

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.

• [151008] High CVE-2013-0839: Use after free in canvas font handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen or OUSPG.
• [170532] Medium CVE-2013-0840: Missing URL validation when opening new windows.
• [169770] High CVE-2013-0841: Unchecked array index in content blocking. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
• [166867] Medium CVE-2013-0842: Problems with NULL characters embedded in paths. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Juri Aedla).
• [Mac only] [166523] High CVE-2013-0843: Crash with unsupported RTC sampling rate. Credit to Ted Nakamura of the Chromium development community.

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.