Chrome 156 Update Patches 347 Vulnerabilities, Awards $50K in Bug Bounties

October 21, 2026
Chrome 156 Update Patches 347 Vulnerabilities, Awards $50K in Bug Bounties
  • A large Chrome security effort has fixed 347 vulnerabilities across the board, including 61 high-severity, 197 medium-severity, and 89 low-severity issues.

  • Disclosures show some flaws were discovered by Google, Xinyang Ge (Anthropic) with Claude assistance, or OpenAI Codex Security, though payouts were not issued for 285 of the vulnerabilities.

  • Quyen Son at VinFast received the top bounty of $10,000 for a high-severity use-after-free issue in Site Isolation.

  • Chrome 156 rolled out on multiple platforms, with versions 156.0.8078.47/48 for Windows and macOS and 156.0.8078.47 for Linux.

  • The Chrome 156 stable channel release patches 353 vulnerabilities across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  • Bug bounty payments total at least $50,000 across 24 vulnerabilities, with totals potentially higher due to undisclosed amounts for 44 flaws.

  • Most fixes address memory safety, including 163 memory corruption bugs, 125 use-after-free issues, 17 out-of-bounds reads, and 36 flaws tied to improper input validations.

  • Six critical-severity vulnerabilities were resolved, five of which were memory corruption and one use-after-free.

  • There was no disclosed exploitation in the wild for these vulnerabilities.

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