Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) patched 32 vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser as it released Chrome 14 into the stable channel, paying $14,337 in bounties to nine security researchers, though external researchers were also credited with rectifying bugs found in the pre-stable version.

Fifteen of the 32 flaws were pegged as high, 10 were graded as medium and the remaining were considered to be low risk. There were no critical vulnerabilities this time.

One notable feature in Chrome 14 is the release of Native Client, a sandboxing technology created as a means to run C and C++ code within a browser to achieve a level of performance that JavaScript cannot provide. To maintain security, Native Client apps are restricted from reading and writing data in memory, while a modified compiler and code verifier also ensures code jumps are restricted.

Native Client is only available on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 platforms at the moment, though Google is working to make it portable via the development of Portable Native Client (PNaCl). Moreover, the company says it hopes to extend support to other languages eventually.

Native Client will only support Chrome Web Store applications for now. Existing Chrome users will have their browsers updated automatically, while new users can download Chrome 14 here.

For more:
- check out this article at Computerworld
- check out this article at The Regsiter
- check out this article at eWeek

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