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Google releases emergency fix for yet another zero-day


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  • Google patched a high‑severity Chrome zero‑day alongside two medium‑severity flaws
  • Vulnerability likely tied to a LibANGLE buffer overflow enabling memory corruption and remote code execution
  • This marks Chrome’s eighth zero‑day fix this year, underscoring ongoing browser‑targeted attacks

Google recently updated its Chrome browser to protect against a high-severity vulnerability that was being abused in the wild as a zero-day.

In a security advisory published earlier this week, the browser giant said it fixed three bugs for Chrome, including two medium-severity ones, and one high-severity.

For the latter, Google said it was “aware that an exploit exists in the wild.” Other details were not disclosed, in order to protect the users as the patch rolls out. This is standard practice for Google, withholding key details from the users - but also from cybercriminals and other hackers.

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