Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer

Google on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it shifted the most stable edition of the browser to version 8.

Chrome 8 also debuted Google's built-in PDF viewer, an alternative to the bug-plagued Adobe Reader plug-in, and included support for the still-not-launched Chrome Web Store.

The 13 flaws fixed in Chrome 8.0.552.215 are in a variety of components, including the browser's history, its video indexing and the display of SVG (scalable vector graphics) animations.

Four of the baker's dozen are tagged as "high" level bugs, Google's second-most-serious rating, while five are pegged "medium" and four are labeled as "low."

Google paid $4,000 in bounties to five researchers for reporting vulnerabilities. Since mid-August, Google has handed out over $29,000 in bug bounty payments.

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