It might be time to update your copy of Google Chrome for your Mac or Windows machines and partitions.
Google Chrome 105.0.5195.102 was released on September 2, and contains a fix for an exploit actively being used against Mac and Windows users.
The update fixes a high-risk security flaw that patches a dangerous zero-day bug. This is the sixth zero-day exploit that the company patched thus far in 2022.
Reported anonymously, CVE-2022-3075 is a vulnerability caused by insufficient data validation in Mojo. Mojo is a collection of runtime libraries that facilitates message passing across arbitrary inter- and intra-process boundaries.
Google’s website doesn’t offer details of the exploit, and the company has stated that there are reports that the flaw has been exploited by attackers in the wild.
“Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix,” the company said. “We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.”
Mac users can update the Google Chrome browser automatically by pressing Command-Q to quit the browser, then reopening the app. If the browser hasn’t been closed in a while, a button will appear in the upper-right corner of the app that says Update.
To update your version of Chrome, go into the Chrome menu, select Help and then About Google Chrome will display the update status of the browser. From here, it should download and install the new update.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via AppleInsider and Google