Google Quashes 5 High-Severity Bugs With Chrome 106 UpdateGoogle Quashes 5 High-Severity Bugs With Chrome 106 Update

Chrome is touting beefed-up security with the release of Chrome 106, which fixes 20 existing bugs, five of them high-severity. 

Of the 20 total security fixes included, 16 were found by external researchers through Google's bug bounty program. A blog post from Google Chrome's Srinivas Sista listed the specific CVEs spotted by the bug bounty hunters, including five designated high-severity, which are as follows:

The biggest external researcher payout for far a bug that contributed to the latest Chrome 106 security update, according to Sista, was $9,000, the lowest was $1,000. Many payout amounts for other Chrome bug hunters are listed as "$TBD." 

As usual, Google did not list any technical details of the bugs. 

"We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel," Sista wrote. "As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes."