Web browser Chrome Is in the regular version 99.0.4844.84 For Linux, MacOS And Windows Published. It contains only one bug fix, which was reported by the manufacturer of a security breach reported anonymously on Wednesday of the week. The risk exploitation code has already appeared in the woods, the company confirms.

In the release blog, Google developers list only one risk that could stamp out the new version. As usual, they are reluctant to provide details of user protection for the time being. Only a brief description will explain that this is a risk of some kind of confusion.

No details are known yet

The type of transferred data is not properly checked by the program, which can lead to all sorts of errors due to the lack of type conversion and different sized data structures, for example in subsequent copy operations – the resulting buffer overflows are imaginary. Injected malicious code to be executed.

Weakness affects According to a Google release blog post Chrome’s JavaScript engine V8 (CVE-2022-1096). Chrome developers are balancing it Danger Weakness like High A. Risk details are not visible, but visiting a website that is maliciously malicious is enough to take advantage of the risk – JavaScript can be used by any website.

The update should be delivered in the next few days and weeks. However, after clicking on the three-point menu under “Help” – “About Google Chrome” in the top right-hand menu, it is a good idea to check if the bug fix version is already installed. If necessary, it starts downloading and installing.

Finally, you need to restart your browser to activate the latest version. Finally, Google closed a serious security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser about two weeks ago.

(DMK)