It looks as if at least once a month we get a safety bulletin that 1) Chrome has some dire safety flaw, 2) Google has patched stated flaw, and three) You ought to replace Chrome instantly or each black hat hacker on the planet will know that you simply watched twelve hours of Futurama reruns this week. So, right here we’re once more. There’s a zero-day exploit for each Chrome and Chromium. It’s being exploited within the wild, so it’s best to replace your browser to repair the problem.

As Bleeping Computer notes, this is the sixth time this year {that a} zero day exploit has been found and patched by Google. (So, as soon as each two months — I apologize for the hyperbole.) This one is an integer overflow bug within the Skia 2D graphics library, a typical kind of exploit that happens when a program doesn’t account for bigger values than ought to usually be potential. It’s structurally just like the basic Y2K bug, however extra sophisticated as a result of we’re coping with bit values as an alternative of dates.

In equity to Google, this bug was found on November twenty fourth and patched simply 4 days later. In barely extra alarming information, Google’s security bulletin says that an exploit for the bug “exists in the wild,” so somebody was already utilizing it to compromise programs. Since the bug is definitely within the core Chromium system, comparable Chromium-based browsers (like Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave) may also must be replace to patch this vulnerability.