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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome  Ars Technica 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 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

Google issued a fresh set of Chrome security updates Wednesday headlined by a zero-day flaw that is actively being targeted in the wild. The tech giant said that its August security update includes a total of 11 fixes, including patches for 10 CVE-listed vulnerabilities. One Chrome vulnerability, CVE-2022-2852, is classified as a critical risk, six are categorized as high risk, and the remaining three are all considered medium risks. Included in the update was a patch for CVE-2022-2856,… Source link

Apple has patched iOS against three zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers were actively exploiting in the wild. The attacks were discovered by Google’s Project Zero vulnerability research group, which over the past few weeks has detected four other zero-day exploits—three against Chrome and a third against Windows. The security flaws affect iPhone 6s and later, seventh-generation iPod touches, iPad Air 2s and… Source link

In addition to patching the actively exploited bug, the update also brings fixes for another four security loopholes Google has rolled out an update to its Chrome web browser that fixes five security flaws, including a vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by attackers. “Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild,” Source link