Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Chrome Zero-Day Under Active Attack: Patch ASAP

 Chrome Zero-Day Under Active Attack: Patch ASAP

Google's Chrome, the popular web browser has a critical flaw that is currently under active attack by bad actors.  The flaw is classified as a zero day (active attack) bug and the patch needs to be applied immediately.

In a brief update, Google described the weakness, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, as a use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome’s Animation component. This kind of flaw can lead to all sorts of misery, ranging from the corruption of valid data to the execution of arbitrary code on vulnerable systems.

https://threatpost.com/google-chrome-zero-day-under-attack/178428/

The fix is to update Chrome browser to the latest version 98.0.4758.102.  This will resolve this issue along with 10 other security issues.

The affected OSs include MAC, Linux as well as Windows users.

To check your Chrome version and update do the following,

Click on Chrome Menu buttons at top right of browser and select Settings,


Next select About Chrome at the bottom


Check your version and make sure it is 93.0.4758.102.  If not update.




That is all. Happy Hump Day!

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