Security News > 2022 > December > Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser.

The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.

According to the NIST's National Vulnerability Database, the flaw permits a "Remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page."

Google acknowledged active exploitation of the vulnerability but stopped short of sharing additional specifics to prevent further abuse.

CVE-2022-4262 is the fourth actively exploited type confusion flaw that Google has addressed since the start of the year.

It's also the ninth zero-day flaw in Chrome attackers have exploited in the wild in 2022 -.

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