Security News > 2020 > October > New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now

Attention readers, if you are using Google Chrome browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately to the latest version Google released earlier today.

Without revealing technical details of the vulnerability, the technical lead for Google's Project Zero Ben Hawkes warned on Twitter that while the team has only spotted an exploit targeting Chrome users, it's possible that other projects that use FreeType might also be vulnerable and are advised to deploy the fix included in FreeType version 2.10.4.

Google released Chrome 86.0.4240.111 as Chrome's "Stable" version, which is available to all users, not just to opted-in early adopters, saying that the company is aware of reports that "An exploit for CVE-2020-15999 exists in the wild," but did not reveal further details of the active attacks.

Besides the FreeType zero-day vulnerability, Google also patched four other flaws in the latest Chrome update, three of which are high-risk vulnerabilities-an inappropriate implementation bug in Blink, a use after free bug in Chrome's media, and use after free bug in PDFium-and one medium-risk use after free issue in browser's printing function.

Although the Chrome web browser automatically notifies users about the latest available version, users are recommended to manually trigger the update process by going to "Help About Google Chrome" from the menu.

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