Google has released the final, stable version of the 18.x series of its popular web browser. 18.0.1025.142 contains “a number of new features including faster and fancier graphics” and a number of security fixes, many credited to the Pwnium competition.

Some of the items listed below represent the start of hardening measures based on study of the exploits submitted to the Pwnium competition.

[$500] [109574] Medium CVE-2011-3058: Bad interaction possibly leading to XSS in EUC-JP. Credit to Masato Kinugawa.
[$500] [112317] Medium CVE-2011-3059: Out-of-bounds read in SVG text handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
[$500] [114056] Medium CVE-2011-3060: Out-of-bounds read in text fragment handling. Credit to miaubiz.
[116398] Medium CVE-2011-3061: SPDY proxy certificate checking error. Credit to Leonidas Kontothanassis of Google.
[116524] High CVE-2011-3062: Off-by-one in OpenType Sanitizer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team.
[117417] Low CVE-2011-3063: Validate navigation requests from the renderer more carefully. Credit to kuzzcc, Sergey Glazunov, PinkiePie and scarybeasts (Google Chrome Security Team).
[$1000] [117471] High CVE-2011-3064: Use-after-free in SVG clipping. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[$1000] [117588] High CVE-2011-3065: Memory corruption in Skia. Credit to Omair.
[$500] [117794] Medium CVE-2011-3057: Invalid read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.

This version also contains the new Adobe Flash release.

Download this latest version at http://majorgeeks.com/Google_Chrome_18.0.1025.142_Final_d6246.html.