14 DAY TRIAL // The Google developers have announced that the Google Chrome browser has been updated and that a few important security fixes have been implemented.
Google rewards developers who find exploits and vulnerabilities, and one of the problems found earned a dev almost $30,000 (27,500). "Critical CVE-2015-1233: A special thanks to Anonymous for a combination of V8, Gamepad and IPC bugs that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox. High CVE-2015-1234: Buffer overflow via race condition in GPU. Credit to lokihardt working with Pwn2Own and HP’s Zero Day Initiative." These are just two of the issues identified in the latest stable version.
According to the changelog, duplicate fonts have been removed from the font fallback list, a closure compiler error has been fixed, a crash in the startup launcher has been fixed, the mirroring display is now updated even if the display configurations are visible, the DXVA decoder flush has been fixed, and numerous other fixes and improvements have been implemented in this release.
You can check the initial announcement for more details about this release. Also, you can download Google Chrome 41.0.2272.118 for Linux from Softpedia, or the Windows and Mac OS X versions from the same location. These are all binary versions, so installing them shouldn't be an issue if you have a system that can use DEB or RPB files.