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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 10 2019, @08:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the tarnished-chrome dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Found Actively Exploited in the Wild

You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application.

Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take full control of the computers.

The vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2019-5786, affects the web browsing software for all major operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux.

Without revealing technical details of the vulnerability, the Chrome security team only says the issue is a use-after-free vulnerability in the FileReader component of the Chrome browser, which leads to remote code execution attacks.

What's more worrisome? Google warned that this zero-day RCE vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild by attackers to target Chrome users.

[...] The patch for the security vulnerability has already been rolled out to its users in a stable Chrome update 72.0.3626.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, which users may have already receive or will soon receive in coming days.

So, make sure your system is running the updated version of the Chrome web browser.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @01:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @01:13PM (#812276)

    "You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application."

    Is that the only part I need to update? How do I download just that part, the web browsing application aspect? I mean I am sick of bloatware and Google is so accomodating about modularity in their products that give users contol right, so did the OP miss some important detail? I hear that chrome just auto updates itself and then HEAVEN FORBID this update requires restarting the browser! So I just want to update that and I will surf the web on something that works.