{"id":448794,"date":"2022-06-14T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=448794"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:07:54","slug":"google-chrome-update-fixes-four-severe-security-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/448794-google-chrome-update-fixes-four-severe-security-flaws.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome update fixes four severe security flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s latest Chrome update \u2014 version 102.0.5005.115 \u2014 for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes seven security flaws, four of which are marked highly severe.<\/p>\n<p>The four high-risk security issues are tracked as CVE-2022-2007, CVE-2022-2008, CVE-2022-2010, and CVE-2022-2011, Google revealed in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chromereleases.googleblog.com\/2022\/06\/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the company has provided some information on the four highly severe vulnerabilities, it restricts access to full bug details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third-party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven&#8217;t yet fixed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-2007 relates to a Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability in the WebGPU API, and malicious actors can exploit the incorrect use of dynamic memory to attack vulnerable systems.<\/p>\n<p>The CVE-2022-2011 vulnerability also relates to a UAF flaw, but it is specific to Chrome&#8217;s ANGLE engine abstraction layer.<\/p>\n<p>The other vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-2008 and CVE-2022-2010, relate to out-of-bounds memory access and read flaws in WebGL and compositing, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the update would roll out to Windows, Mac, and Linux users over the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/448528-telegram-announces-premium-subscriptions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegram announces Premium subscriptions<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The update will roll out to Windows, Mac, and Linux users over the coming days and weeks and will fix seven vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":421484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[32030,167,1137,1799,2120,807],"class_list":["post-448794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-alphabet","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448848,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448794\/revisions\/448848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}