If you’re one of many thousands and thousands of worldwide Chrome customers, it is time for one more replace. That is proper, a sixth zero-day exploit has been found in Chrome and, thankfully, the replace was launched shortly after.
In the event you’re unsure as to what a zero-day vulnerability is, it is merely a vulnerability that has been found however not but patched.
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The exploit in query is CVE-2023-6345 and does exist within the wild. In keeping with Tenable, the official description of this vulnerability is, “Integer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome previous to 119.0.6045.199 allowed a distant attacker who had compromised the renderer course of to probably carry out a sandbox escape through a malicious file. (Chromium safety severity: Excessive).”
The Chrome Secure channel has been up to date to 119.0.6045 for each Linux and Mac and 119.0.6045.199/.200 for Home windows. Though the replace hasn’t been rolled out for each person, Google has confirmed it is going to occur over the approaching days/weeks.
This replace consists of seven totally different safety fixes (together with for the zero-day exploit), that are:
- CVE-2023-6348: Kind Confusion in Spellcheck
- CVE-2023-6347: Use after free in Mojo.
- CVE-2023-6346: Use after free in WebAudio.
- CVE-2023-6350: Out of bounds reminiscence entry in libavif.
- CVE-2023-6351: Use after free in libavif.
- CVE-2023-6345: Integer overflow in Skia.
It’s the closing vulnerability, listed above, that’s the zero-day exploit. It is fascinating to know that this vulnerability is listed as Excessive and never Important. Even so, any bug listed as Excessive needs to be thought-about a must-patch. Apart from saying this vulnerability exists within the wild, Google has been a bit hush-hush about it. You possibly can learn Google’s official assertion concerning the situation.
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To seek out out which model of Chrome you’re utilizing, go to Settings > About Chrome, the place you may see the model quantity. If there’s an replace out there, ensure to click on Relaunch, so the updates will likely be utilized. In the event you discover your model is out-of-date, you may at all times go to the Chrome obtain web page, obtain the newest model, and set up it.
