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High-Severity Chrome Bugs Allow Browser Hacks
2020-12-04 20:40

Google has updated its Chrome web browser, fixing four bugs with a severity rating of "High" and eight overall.

An updated 87.0.4280.88 version of Chrome addresses the bugs and will "Roll out over the coming days/weeks," Google wrote.

Details tied to each of the bugs are being withheld at this time, Google said, "Until a majority of users are updated with a fix." It also noted that when and if bugs exist in third-party code libraries used in other devices or platforms, technical details of the bugs will be limited.

Three high-severity bugs each include use-after-free elements impacting memory, tied to Chrome's clipboard, media and extensions components.

Cybersecurity researchers have described these types of uninitialized-use bugs as "Largely overlooked" and often "Regarded as insignificant memory errors."


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https://threatpost.com/google_chrome_bugs_patched/161907/