Google simply patched 150+ Chrome vulnerabilities, 22 of them essential
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In abstract:
- PCWorld studies that Google Chrome 148 patches over 150 safety vulnerabilities throughout desktop and cell platforms, with 22 categorised as essential.
- The replace addresses 66 Use-after-free vulnerabilities that would doubtlessly permit attackers to take advantage of browser reminiscence, although none have been actively exploited.
- Customers ought to instantly replace their Chrome browsers by Assist → About Google Chrome to guard in opposition to these safety flaws.
With new Chrome variations 148.0.7778.216/217 for Home windows, 148.0.7778.2015/216 for macOS, and 148.0.7778.215 for Linux, the builders have patched greater than 150 safety vulnerabilities. In response to Google, none of those safety vulnerabilities are being exploited within the wild but.
Within the Chrome Releases weblog publish, Srinivas Sista lists the 151 fastened safety vulnerabilities in query, with Google having found 134 of them and one other 17 reported by exterior safety researchers. Google has up to now awarded these researchers $137,500 in bounties.
Use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities account for greater than half of all the pieces, totalling 66 of the 151 flaws. Total, 22 are categorised as essential: CVE-2026-9872 to CVE-2026-9893. An extra 123 are categorised as excessive threat, with the remaining six categorised as medium threat. A complete of 35 vulnerabilities have been fastened within the ANGLE OpenGL library alone, 4 of that are categorised as essential.
Google has additionally launched Chrome for Android 148.0.7778.215 and Chrome for iOS 149.0.7827.45. The Android model addresses the identical vulnerabilities because the desktop variations. The Prolonged Secure Channel for Home windows and macOS now consists of Chromium model 148.0.7778.217.
Chrome normally updates robotically when a brand new model is on the market. You may manually test for updates by way of the menu choice Assist → About Google Chrome.
The discharge of Chrome 149 is predicted subsequent week.
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This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
