Security News > 2020 > October > New Google Chrome version fixes actively exploited zero-day bug
Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.111 today, October 20th, 2020, to the Stable desktop channel to address five security vulnerabilities, one of them an actively exploited zero-day bug.
"Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild," the Google Chrome 86.0.4240.111 announcement reads.
Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop users can upgrade to Chrome 86 by going to Settings -> Help -> About Google Chrome.
The Google Chrome web browser will then automatically check for the new update and install it when available.
"Project Zero discovered and reported an actively exploited 0day in freetype that was being used to target Chrome," said Ben Hawkes, technical team lead of Google's 'Project Zero' security research team.
News URL
Related news
- New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions (source)
- Google Chrome is making it easier to share specific parts of long PDFs (source)
- Fake Google Chrome Sites Distribute ValleyRAT Malware via DLL Hijacking (source)
- Google Chrome's AI-powered security feature rolls out to everyone (source)
- Google to kill Chrome Sync on older Chrome browser versions (source)
- Google fixes Android kernel zero-day exploited in attacks (source)
Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-03 | CVE-2020-15999 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 9.6 |