Tag Archives: Chrome

The logo of Google Chrome shown on a smartphone. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images I currently have 47 tabs open on Google Chrome. If you’re like me, you’ll want to hear about a new update. Over the next few weeks, Google is rolling out two Chrome performance settings to save memory and battery power. The update will be available for Windows, macOS and ChromeOS desktop users with the release of Chrome 108. Here’s what’s coming and how to make sure you download the updates. Energy… Source link

December 6 Update below. This post was originally published on December 4 Google has confirmed yet another zero-day vulnerability impacting the Chrome web browser client, the ninth this year. In a posting to the official Chrome releases blog, Google states that users of Chrome on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms as well as Android, are impacted by the high-severity CVE-2022-4262 0day security vulnerability. An urgent update has started rolling out across all platforms, and Google is… Source link

Google has confirmed yet another zero-day vulnerability impacting the Chrome web browser client, the ninth this year. In a posting to the official Chrome releases blog, Google states that users of Chrome on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms as well as Android, are impacted by the high-severity CVE-2022-4262 0day security vulnerability. An urgent update has started rolling out across all platforms, and Google is withholding the technical details of the zero-day until a majority of Chrome… Source link

Google has released an update for Chrome on the desktop and Android that fixes a high-risk vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability (CVE-2022-4135) is a heap buffer overflow in Chrome’s GPU and could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a target device. This is the eighth vulnerability that has been actively exploited in Chrome that Google has patched this year. “Heap buffer overflow in GPU in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.121… Source link

Google LLC has begun rolling out a patch for a high-severity security vulnerability that affects the desktop version of its Chrome browser. The company disclosed the move in a Thursday blog post. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2022-4135, affects the Windows, Mac and Linux editions of Chrome. Google stated that the patch will roll out over the coming days and weeks. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-4135 exists in the wild,” the company stated in the blog… Source link

Google has confirmed the eighth zero-day exploit impacting the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. An emergency fix addressing this single issue is being rolled out now, but you can force-update your browser immediately. Other browser clients using the Chromium engine should also expect to see updates soon. Google confirms Chrome zero-day number 8 for 2022 It used to be a very rare event when a Google Chrome update addressed a single security issue, reserved for… Source link

Today is known as ‘Exploit Wednesday’ because it follows Patch Tuesday when big-name vendors release multiple security patches. I have already reported this morning how Microsoft confirmed no less than four new Windows zero-days being actively exploited in the wild. While none are zero-days, Google is also rolling out an update to address six high-severity security issues impacting the Chrome browser. Four of these earned the hackers who reported them a total of $45,000. What are the six… Source link

Google recently rolled out an emergency fix for a zero-day vulnerability, the seventh one so far in 2022, affecting its flagship web browser Chrome. The latest patch fixes a type confusion bug in the JavaScript-based V8 engine. Tracked as CVE-2022-3723, the flaw is the seventh zero-day vulnerability, i.e., whose exploit is publicly available, and the third type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 engine. Needless to say, users should prioritize patching the… Source link

Other issues fixed in October are a heap buffer overflow in WebSQL tracked as CVE-2022-3446 and a use-after-free bug in Permissions API tracked as CVE-2022-3448, Google wrote in its blog. Google also fixed two use-after-free bugs in Safe Browsing and in Peer Connection. Google Android The Android Security Bulletin for October includes fixes for 15 flaws in the Framework and System and 33 issues in the kernel and vendor components. One of the most concerning issues is a critical security… Source link

Chrome may be the world’s most popular web browser, but Google has announced it will end Chrome support for millions of Windows users early next year. Google Chome support is ending for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 in February 2023 SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In a new blog post, Google confirmed, “We’re ending support for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. Chrome 110 (tentatively scheduled for release on February 7th, 2023) is the last version of Chrome that will work on these versions of… Source link