Google urged users to urgently update their browsers

The American company Google has released an update to its Chrome browser for Windows users that removes a serious zero-day vulnerability used in real cyber attacks. informs anti-malware portal. Google strongly recommends that you install the latest version of Chrome, number 103.0.5060.114.

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-2294, and according to the publication, Google is aware of the vulnerability and its exploitation by cybercriminals. The vulnerability affects the WebRTC component and is a classic buffer overflow issue.

It is noted that vulnerabilities of this class are often used to crash programs, execute code, and bypass installed security software. Despite being actively exploited in the attacks, Google did not disclose the technical details of the vulnerability that was fixed.

Formerly socialbites.ca saidA dangerous vulnerability was discovered in the Safari browser, which was fixed in 2013.



Source: Gazeta

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