Google released Chrome 80 for Windows Mac & Linux with various improvements and patches for 56 security vulnerabilities that affected chrome.
Chrome 80.0.3987.8 roll out over the coming days/weeks and you can update your browser by accessing Settings -> Help -> About Google Chrome, the browser will automatically check the update.
Android and iOS users can update the Chrome browser app from their respective App stores.
Chrome 80 for Android has been released with several improvements of the following:
- Quieter notifications: You can see fewer notification requests with a new permission option.
- SameSite cookies: By default, cookies are treated as same-site only.
- Secure media: Insecure audio and video on secure pages are automatically upgraded to secure connections.
“The enablement of the SameSite-by-default and SameSite=None-requires-Secure enforcement will not be included in this initial Chrome 80 stable rollout. Please see the next item for more detailed information on when SameSite enforcement will be enabled for Chrome 80 stable.” you can see the video to know more about same-site cookies.
Here you find the complete change for developers in Chrome 80.
56 Security Vulnerabilities Fixed
Chrome 80 also fixed 56 security bugs in the various category including 11 vulnerabilities patched under “High” severity, 34 vulnerabilities fixed under “medium” severity and 10 vulnerabilities are patched under “Low” severity.
High severity including Type Confusion in JavaScript, Integer overflow in JavaScript, Multiple vulnerabilities in SQLite and more
| [$5000][1034394] High CVE-2020-6381: Integer overflow in JavaScript. Reported by The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on 2019-12-09 |
| [$2000][1031909] High CVE-2020-6382: Type Confusion in JavaScript. Reported by Soyeon Park and Wen Xu from SSLab, Gatech on 2019-12-08 |
| [$500][1020745] High CVE-2019-18197: Multiple vulnerabilities in XML. Reported by BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team on 2019-11-01 |
| [$500][1042700] High CVE-2019-19926: Inappropriate implementation in SQLite. Reported by Richard Lorenz, SAP on 2020-01-16 |
| [$N/A][1035399] High CVE-2020-6385: Insufficient policy enforcement in storage. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2019-12-18 |
| [$N/A][1038863] High CVE-2019-19880, CVE-2019-19925: Multiple vulnerabilities in SQLite. Reported by Richard Lorenz, SAP on 2020-01-03 |
| [$N/A][1042535] High CVE-2020-6387: Out of bounds write in WebRTC. Reported by Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero on 2020-01-16 |
| [$N/A][1042879] High CVE-2020-6388: Out of bounds memory access in WebAudio. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2020-01-16 |
| [$N/A][1042933] High CVE-2020-6389: Out of bounds write in WebRTC. Reported by Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero on 2020-01-16 |
| [$N/A][1045874] High CVE-2020-6390: Out of bounds memory access in streams. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2020-01-27 |
| [$10000][1017871] Medium CVE-2020-6391: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink. Reported by Michał Bentkowski of Securitum on 2019-10-24 |
| [$5000][1030411] Medium CVE-2020-6392: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions. Reported by Microsoft Edge Team on 2019-12-03 |
| [$5000][1035058] Medium CVE-2020-6393: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink. Reported by Mark Amery on 2019-12-17 |
| [$3000][1014371] Medium CVE-2020-6394: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink. Reported by Phil Freo on 2019-10-15 |
| [$3000][1022855] Medium CVE-2020-6395: Out of bounds read in JavaScript. Reported by Pierre Langlois from Arm on 2019-11-08 |
| [$3000][1035271] Medium CVE-2020-6396: Inappropriate implementation in Skia. Reported by William Luc Ritchie on 2019-12-18 |
| [$2000][1027408] Medium CVE-2020-6397: Incorrect security UI in sharing. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2019-11-22 |
| [$2000][1032090] Medium CVE-2020-6398: Uninitialized use in PDFium. Reported by pdknsk on 2019-12-09 |
| [$2000][1039869] Medium CVE-2020-6399: Insufficient policy enforcement in AppCache. Reported by Luan Herrera (@lbherrera_) on 2020-01-07 |
| [$1000][1038036] Medium CVE-2020-6400: Inappropriate implementation in CORS. Reported by Takashi Yoneuchi (@y0n3uchy) on 2019-12-27 |
| [$500][1017707] Medium CVE-2020-6401: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Omnibox. Reported by Tzachy Horesh on 2019-10-24 |
| [$500][1029375] Medium CVE-2020-6402: Insufficient policy enforcement in downloads. Reported by Vladimir Metnew (@vladimir_metnew) on 2019-11-28 |
| [$TBD][1006012] Medium CVE-2020-6403: Incorrect security UI in Omnibox. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2019-09-19 |
| [$N/A][1024256] Medium CVE-2020-6404: Inappropriate implementation in Blink. Reported by kanchi on 2019-11-13 |
| [$N/A][1042145] Medium CVE-2020-6405: Out of bounds read in SQLite. Reported by Yongheng Chen(Ne0) & Rui Zhong(zr33) on 2020-01-15 |
| [$N/A][1042254] Medium CVE-2020-6406: Use after free in audio. Reported by Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on 2020-01-15 |
| [$N/A][1042578] Medium CVE-2019-19923: Out of bounds memory access in SQLite. Reported by Richard Lorenz, SAP on 2020-01-16 |
| [$1000][1026546] Low CVE-2020-6408: Insufficient policy enforcement in CORS. Reported by Zhong Zhaochen of andsecurity.cn on 2019-11-20 |
| [$1000][1037889] Low CVE-2020-6409: Inappropriate implementation in Omnibox. Reported by Divagar S and Bharathi V from Karya Technologies on 2019-12-26 |
| [$500][881675] Low CVE-2020-6410: Insufficient policy enforcement in navigation. Reported by evi1m0 of Bilibili Security Team on 2018-09-07 |
| [$500][929711] Low CVE-2020-6411: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Omnibox. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2019-02-07 |
| [$N/A][968505] Low CVE-2020-6412: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Omnibox. Reported by Zihan Zheng (@zzh1996) of University of Science and Technology of China on 2019-05-30 |
| [$N/A][1005713] Low CVE-2020-6413: Inappropriate implementation in Blink. Reported by Michał Bentkowski of Securitum on 2019-09-19 |
| [$N/A][1021855] Low CVE-2020-6414: Insufficient policy enforcement in Safe Browsing. Reported by Lijo A.T on 2019-11-06 |
| [$N/A][1029576] Low CVE-2020-6415: Inappropriate implementation in JavaScript. Reported by Avihay Cohen @ SeraphicAlgorithms on 2019-11-30 |
| [$N/A][1031895] Low CVE-2020-6416: Insufficient data validation in streams. Reported by Woojin Oh(@pwn_expoit) of STEALIEN on 2019-12-08 |
| [$N/A][1033824] Low CVE-2020-6417: Inappropriate implementation in installer. Reported by Renato “Wrath” Moraes and Altieres “FallenHawk” Rohr on 2019-12-13 |
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