Google has released Chrome 39, fixing 42 security vulnerabilities and removing support for the fallback to SSLv3, the component that was the target of the POODLE attack revealed last month.

When the POODLE attack was disclosed by several Google researchers in October, the company said that it had added a change to Chrome that would disable SSLv3 fallback. The technique involves an attacker to force a server to fall back from a modern version of SSL/TLS to the older SSLv3 and then decrypt the protected traffic by sending a high volume of requests to the server. The company plans to disable support for SSLv3 altogether at some point in the near future.

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