Right on the heels of celebrating the launch of Chrome version 100, Google has released an even more important update for its browser. On Thursday, Google released Chrome version 100.0.4896.127 to the stable channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The urgent update fixes a new zero-day exploit that puts Chrome users at risk once again.
Chrome update patches zero-day exploit
In a blog post on Thursday, Google’s Prudhvikumar Bommana confirmed that the company is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1364 exists in the wild. This is the third zero-day exploit that Google has had to patch this year. The last one was fixed just weeks ago, and it similarly involved a type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.
