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How To Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 17.10

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

How to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 17.10. Install google-chrome-stable in Ubuntu Linux Systems; install Google Chrome in Ubuntu 64 bit.

Chrome 62

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 62 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 62.0.3202.62 contains a number of fixes and improvements. Chrome 62 update includes 35 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

  • High CVE-2017-5124: UXSS with MHTML. Reported by Anonymous on 2017-09-07
  • High CVE-2017-5125: Heap overflow in Skia. Reported by Anonymous on 2017-07-26
  • High CVE-2017-5126: Use after free in PDFium. Reported by Luật Nguyễn (@l4wio) of KeenLab, Tencent on 2017-08-30
  • High CVE-2017-5127: Use after free in PDFium. Reported by Luật Nguyễn (@l4wio) of KeenLab, Tencent on 2017-09-14
  • High CVE-2017-5128: Heap overflow in WebGL. Reported by Omair on 2017-09-14
  • High CVE-2017-5129: Use after free in WebAudio. Reported by Omair on 2017-09-15
  • High CVE-2017-5132: Incorrect stack manipulation in WebAssembly.
  • High CVE-2017-5130: Heap overflow in libxml2. Reported by Pranjal Jumde (@pjumde) on 2017-05-14
  • Medium CVE-2017-5131: Out of bounds write in Skia. Reported by Anonymous on 2017-07-16
  • Medium CVE-2017-5133: Out of bounds write in Skia. Reported by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos on 2017-09-05
  • Medium CVE-2017-15386: UI spoofing in Blink. Reported by WenXu Wu of Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab on 2017-08-03
  • Medium CVE-2017-15387: Content security bypass. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2017-08-16
  • Medium CVE-2017-15388: Out of bounds read in Skia. Reported by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet’s FortiGuard
  • Labs on 2017-08-17
  • Medium CVE-2017-15389: URL spoofing in OmniBox. Reported by xisigr of Tencent’s Xuanwu Lab on 2017-07-06
  • Medium CVE-2017-15390: URL spoofing in OmniBox. Reported by Haosheng Wang (@gnehsoah) on 2017-07-28
  • Low CVE-2017-15391: Extension limitation bypass in Extensions. Reported by João Lucas Melo Brasio (whitehathackers.com.br) on 2016-03-28
  • Low CVE-2017-15392: Incorrect registry key handling in PlatformIntegration. Reported by Xiaoyin Liu (@general_nfs) on 2017-04-22
  • Low CVE-2017-15393: Referrer leak in Devtools. Reported by Svyat Mitin on 2017-06-13
  • Low CVE-2017-15394: URL spoofing in extensions UI. Reported by Sam @sudosammy on 2017-07-18
  • Low CVE-2017-15395: Null pointer dereference in ImageCapture. Reported by Johannes Bergman (johberlvi@) on 2017-08-28

Download and Install Chrome

You can download Chrome 62 from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html and install it manually.

You can also install Google Chrome 62 via Terminal commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

Now copy and paste the following line to the bottom of the sources.list file

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Now continue the installation by running the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install google-chrome-stable

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