Security News > 2020 > April > Critical bug in Google Chrome – get your update now

Google just issued a Chrome update with a note that says, "This update includes 1 [critical] security fix."

The bug itself is still a secret, even though the Chromium core of the Chrome browser is an open source project.

Often, knowing what specific checks were added to program code in order to detect and head off potential exploits can save an attacker weeks or even months of "Black-box" bug hunting.

Curiously, despite a bug that's critical enough to imply that it is exploitable and that exploiting it could let a crook implant malware on your computer, Google advises that the new version "Will roll out over the coming days/weeks."

As an aside, we were hoping there would be an easy way to turn off the speech recognizer part of Chrome and thereby perhaps to neutralise this bug anyway.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/04/17/critical-bug-in-google-chrome-get-your-update-now/