Govt points warning for Google Chrome customers about a number of vulnerabilities

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a excessive severity ranking warning on Saturday of a number of vulnerabilities within the standard web browser Google Chrome. The nationwide nodal company for cyber crimes outlined the varied gaps within the browser that may be exploited by hackers or different cyber criminals.

CERT-In mentioned that a number of vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome which might enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code, bypass safety restrictions, or trigger a denial-of-service situation on the focused system

“These vulnerabilities exist in Google Chrome as a result of heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx; use-after-free error in Passwords and Extensions. A distant attacker might exploit these vulnerabilities by executing a specifically crafted HTML web page,” CERT-In said in a release. 

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“Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions or cause a denial-of-service condition on the targeted system,” it added. 

The company additionally talked about a be aware that mentioned the vulnerability below CVE-2023-5217 is being exploited within the wild. Users are suggested to patch the weak units instantly. It implies that the cybercriminals are already exploiting the vulnerabilities below CVE-2023-5217 and the company has requested the customers of the Chrome model to patch the units instantly.

Solution 

While sharing the answer for the issue and to maintain the customers protected from the vulnerabilities, CERT-In additionally shared the hyperlink to applicable updates shared by Google Chrome. In case customers are going through points or simply need to stay on the safer facet they’ll copy-paste the hyperlink given beneath and apply the suitable updates.

Link to the updates: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html

CERT In is India’s nodal company to reply to the pc safety incidents after they happen. 

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Updated: 30 Sep 2023, 10:53 PM IST