Today's Chrome update was the second in the last eight days: on Feb. 28.

Three of the vulnerabilities were identified as "stale pointer" bugs, a term that describes flaws in an application's -- in this case, Chrome's -- memory allocation code. Google has patched numerous stale pointer bugs in the last two months.

Other flaws fixed today were credited to a wide range of the browser's components, including its V8 JavaScript engine, the code that processes video, and WebKit, the open-source browser engine that both Chrome and Apple's Safari use as their foundations.

As is its practice, Google locked its bug tracking database to bar outsiders from viewing the technical details of the just-patched vulnerabilities. The company blocks public access to flaws for weeks or even months to give users time to update.

Google paid out a record $16,174 in bounties for finding and reporting 15 of the vulnerabilities patched today. Five different researchers received checks, with frequent-contributor Sergey Glazunov taking home $6,500 and Daniel Divricean earning $3,174.