Google has rolled out a security patch to fix a high-severity vulnerability in its Chrome web browser for desktops, which has been actively exploited.<\/p>\n
The CVE-2023-2033 vulnerability was reported by Google Threat Analysis Group’s Cl\u00e9ment Lecigne on 11 April 2023.<\/p>\n
In a blog post on Friday, 14 April 2023, Google explained<\/strong><\/a> it was a “type confusion” bug in the JavaScript engine used by Chromium-based browsers on the V8 Javascript engine.<\/p>\n In simple terms, where a program allocates or initialises a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, the type confusion allows it to access the resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.<\/p>\n For example, under certain circumstances, JavaScript automatically tries to convert an array into a character string when performing specific comparisons.<\/p>\n This enables attackers to perform out-of-bounds memory reading and writing, which could give them access to sensitive information on the browser or cause it to crash.<\/p>\n The description of the CVE said the bug allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a specially-crafted HTML page.<\/p>\n Google said that access to further bug details and links might be restricted until most users received the fix.<\/p>\n While Chrome typically performs updates automatically, it is advisable to check what version you are running and manually update in case you have not yet received the patch.<\/p>\n To do this, click on the three-dot (“kebab”) menu near the top right corner of the Chrome window, select “Settings”, and then open the “About Chrome” section at the bottom of the settings categories.<\/p>\n The version number for the Chrome browser with the patch is 112.0.5615.121. If this is not the version you are seeing, hit the update button to install the patch.<\/p>\n Google Chrome is the world’s most popular desktop Internet browser, with 64.8% market share as of March 2023, according to GlobalStats Statcounter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n While Google has not published its exact user numbers in a while, AtlasVPN<\/strong><\/a> estimated the figure stood at about 3.38 billion as of May 2022.<\/p>\n While Chrome typically performs updates automatically, it is advisable to check what version you are running and manually update in case you have not yet received the patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":465977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,1137,35],"class_list":["post-487971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487971"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488025,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487971\/revisions\/488025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: WhatsApp launching three security features<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"