Security News > 2022 > August > Google, Apple squash exploitable browser bugs

Google has issued 11 security fixes for desktop Chrome, including one bug that has an exploit for it out in the wild.

This is the fifth Chrome bug Google has fixed this year that has either been exploited or had exploit code in the wild.

While Google isn't aware of any exploits for the remaining bugs on today's list, one received a critical-severity rating and it deemed five others high severity.

The Center for Internet Security, which ranked the risk of these Chrome vulnerabilities as "High" for large and medium government agencies and businesses, and "Medium" for small government and companies, warned the most severe of the bugs would allow an attacker to execute malicious code "In the context of the logged-on user."

In addition to the bug under active exploit, Google detailed nine of the 11 bugs in its update.

Speaking of patches... We've just seen that Apple has issued macOS 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1, and iPadOS 15.6.1 updates to address a flaw in the kernel that can be abused by an app to gain total control of the Mac or device, and a flaw in WebKit that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

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