Download Google Chrome 27.0.1453.93

Google has released version 27 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 27 is the chrome.syncFileSystem API, which gives apps the ability to store specific data on Google Drive for availability on different clients and platforms. In addition, pages load on average five percent faster and improvements have been made to the spell checker and Omnibox. In addition, there are of course the necessary security updates and bug fixes. The full changelog for this release can be found below.

Stable Channel Release

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 27.0.1453.93 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including:

• Web pages load 5% faster on average
• chrome.syncFileSystem API
• Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions. Please see the Help Center for more information on our updated policies.

Security fixes and rewards:

please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)
This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):

• [235638] High CVE-2013-2837: Use after free in SVG.
• [235311] Medium CVE-2013-2838: Out-of-bounds read in v8.
• [230176] High CVE-2013-2839: Bad cast in clipboard handling.
• [230117] High CVE-2013-2840: Use after free in media loader.
• [227350] High CVE-2013-2841: Use after free in Pepper resource handling.
• [226696] High CVE-2013-2842: Use after free in widget handling.
• [222000] High CVE-2013-2843: Use after free in speech handling.
• [196393] High CVE-2013-2844: Use after free in style resolution.
• [188092] [179522] [222136] [188092] High CVE-2013-2845: Memory safety issues in Web Audio.
• [177620] High CVE-2013-2846: Use after free in media loader.
• [176692] High CVE-2013-2847: Use-after-free race condition with workers.
• [176137] Medium CVE-2013-2848: Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor.
• [171392] Low CVE-2013-2849: Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste.

In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:

• [241595] High CVE-2013-2836: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

This build also contains a new Adobe Flash build. You can find more information here.

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.