Google Chrome Update: Critical DOM Issue with $2000 Bounty

Google has paid out its highest sum yet, $2,000, for the discovery of a vulnerability found in its Chrome browser. The recipient is developer Sergey Glazunov, who found a DOM method-related means of circumventing the same origin policy. Details of the vulnerability are not yet publicly available, but it is likely that it could allow a web page to access content from other web pages. Google classifies the risk as high. Update 5.0.375.70 for Windows, Mac and Linux resolves the problem.

The update also fixes a further 10 vulnerabilities, eight of which are classified critical. Two of the vulnerabilities were discovered by Apple

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