Install Google Chrome 46 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. Google Chrome 46 update includes 24 security fixes and various improvements. Chrome 46.0.2490.71 contains a number of fixes – 46 update and 24 security fixes.
Below are some of the fixes that were contributed by external researchers and fixed.
- Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.
- Use-after-free in PDFium. Credit to anonymous.
- Use-after-free in ServiceWorker. Credit to Collin Payne.
- Bad-cast in PDFium. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
- Information leakage in LocalStorage. Credit to Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea).
- Improper error handling in libANGLE. Credit to Ronald Crane, an independent security researcher.
- Memory corruption in FFMpeg. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG and Khalil Zhani.
- CORS bypass via CSS fonts. Credit to Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea).
- Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
- Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.6 branch (currently 4.6.85.23).
Run the following commands in Terminal to install the latest version of Google Chrome on Ubuntu and Derivatives:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
If you do not want to use CLI/Terminal, you can use Google chrome GUI installer to install Google Chrome using the GUI/graphical interface.
Google Chrome 46 is also available via the official Google repositories for Linux Ubuntu systems. Which means, Google Chrome 46 can be installed via Ubuntu Software Center.
Once installed, open Google Chrome via Ubuntu Dash or Menu. You can also run the following commands to open Google Chrome from Terminal.
$ google-chrome & [or] $ google-chrome-stable &
