Google has released 2x security updates for Google Chrome that patch highly-severity vulnerabilities.
The first of these warnings impacts Chrome’s desktop users—on Windows and Mac. Google has just confirmed a security update that includes at least three high-severity fixes for vulnerabilities of the kind that have been exploited in the past.
Two of the three vulnerabilities relate to Chrome’s JavaScript and WebAssembley engine, with the potential to enable a “remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page.” There are no suggestions yet of any exploits are actively being used in the wild, but now the information is public that will change very quickly.
The other fix is for a use after free issue, which means an attacker might be able to use latent pointers to route through to memory after it’s freed up, with the risk that the platform or device might be destabilized, opening up other vulnerabilities.
SecureSphere (NZ) urgently recommends that users update their version of Google Chrome to the latest version (Version 124.0.6367.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)).
SecureSphere can help with the updating process. Please contact us to see how we can assist.
Thanks for Forbes for the Heads-Up.