{"id":451372,"date":"2022-07-05T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=451372"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T07:03:48","slug":"google-patches-major-chrome-security-flaw-attackers-are-actively-exploiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/451372-google-patches-major-chrome-security-flaw-attackers-are-actively-exploiting.html","title":{"rendered":"Google patches major Chrome security flaw attackers are actively exploiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chromereleases.googleblog.com\/search\/label\/Stable%20updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disclosed<\/a> <\/strong>that the latest patch for its Chrome desktop web browser addresses a high-severity security flaw exploited in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-2294 exists in the wild,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Avast Threat Intelligence security researcher Jan Vojtesek reported CVE-2022-2294 last week on 1 July.<\/p>\n<p>The bug involves a heap-based buffer overflow weakness in WebRTC, allowing attackers to bypass protection mechanisms and execute arbitrary code attacks.<\/p>\n<p>This could let attackers steal private data, usernames and passwords, and install spyware or malware on users\u2019 PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Google has not given any details about how bad actors have actively exploited this security flaw.<\/p>\n<p>The company explained that it would restrict access to bug details until most users had applied the patch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third-party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven\u2019t yet fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides the actively exploited bug, Chrome\u2019s latest patch also fixed two other high-severity security flaws brought to Google\u2019s attention by external researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant advised Chrome users to install the browser\u2019s 103.0.5060.114 patch as soon as possible to prevent any active exploitation attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Users can check whether they have the latest update installed by navigating to Help\/Settings &gt; About Chrome.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/448794-google-chrome-update-fixes-four-severe-security-flaws.html\">Google Chrome update fixes four severe security flaws<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome on desktop\u2019s latest update fixes four high-severity security vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited in the wild. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":451374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[79538,167,1137],"class_list":["post-451372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-avast-threat-intelligence","tag-google","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451372"}],"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\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451376,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451372\/revisions\/451376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}