{"id":23817,"date":"2022-07-05T09:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=23817"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:12:54","slug":"google-patches-serious-zero-day-exploit-in-chrome-version-103-be-sure-to-update-chrome-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-patches-serious-zero-day-exploit-in-chrome-version-103-be-sure-to-update-chrome-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Patches Serious Zero-day Exploit in Chrome Version 103:  Be Sure to Update Chrome Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google Patches Serious Zero-day Exploit in Chrome Version 103: Be Sure to Update Chrome Now!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">According to ZDNet&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google has released an update to Chrome 103 for Windows desktops that fixes a flaw in its implementation of WebRTC, which it warns is already under attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The issue that Chrome update 103.0.5060.114 for Windows addresses is a &#8220;heap buffer overflow in WebRTC&#8221;, referring to when the buffer allocated in the heap portion of memory can be overwritten for nefarious means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">WebRTC is the open web standard for building video and voice applications for real-time communications (RTC). It&#8217;s enabled by JavaScript in the browser and the standard is supported by all major browser vendors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google hasn&#8217;t offered any details on the bug, other than it&#8217;s been assigned the identifier CVE-2022-2294, has a &#8220;high&#8221;-severity rating&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">It did, however, acknowledge there is an exploit for it circulating in the public.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-races-out-patch-for-high-severity-chrome-browser-zero-day-on-windows-and-android\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Read more here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">To update your Google Chrome browser&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1. Click on the 3 vertical dots icon at the top right of Chrome.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2. From the drop-down menu choose &#8220;Help&#8221; &gt; &#8220;About Google Chrome&#8221;.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">3. As soon as you click &#8220;About Google Chrome&#8221;, Chrome will check for updates and any available updates will be downloaded. After the updates have been downloaded you&#8217;ll see a &#8220;Relaunch&#8230;&#8221; button appear<\/span>. <span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click the Relaunch button to finalize updating Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We suggest you do this right away &#8212; it only takes a few minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Google Patches Serious Zero-day Exploit in Chrome Version 103: Be Sure to Update Chrome Now! According to ZDNet&#8230; Google has released an update to Chrome 103 for Windows desktops that fixes a flaw in its implementation of WebRTC, which it warns is already under attack. The issue that Chrome update 103.0.5060.114 for Windows addresses is a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-patches-serious-zero-day-exploit-in-chrome-version-103-be-sure-to-update-chrome-now\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4401,1462,2574,1669,1656,1674,779,4353,4221,3602],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23819,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23817\/revisions\/23819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}