Update Google Chrome now to fix this dangerous zero-day flaw

Update Google Chrome now to fix this dangerous nothing-day flaw

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It'south time to update your Chrome desktop browser on Mac, Windows or Linux one time again to gear up a dangerous "zero-day" flaw that is already being used to attack computer users.

Few details are yet bachelor nearly the zero-day flaw. Google's Chrome weblog post yesterday (July 15) notes that it involves "type defoliation in V8," the JavaScript rendering engine used by Chrome, and that "Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2021-30563 [the flaw'due south catalogue number] exists in the wild."

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This is the eighth cipher-day flaw patched in Chrome this year, co-ordinate to Bleeping Calculator.

Earlier this calendar week, Google researchers said a "commercial surveillance company" had adult exploits for two of the older Chrome cipher-days and sold them to nation-state intelligence agencies. A 24-hour interval later, Microsoft and the University of Toronto'south Citizen Lab identified the company as Israeli spyware firm Candiru and said its customers were in the Middle East and the former Soviet Spousal relationship.

Chrome 91.0.4472.164 patches seven other flaws, two others of which involve vulnerabilities in V8. Almost of the flaws are categorized as beingness "high" severity, indicating that remote-lawmaking-execution — hacking over the internet — is possible.

How to update Chrome

To update Chrome on Windows and Mac, endeavor closing and relaunching your browser. If that doesn't piece of work, click the three vertical dots at the top right of the browser window. Scroll down and mouse over Help, and so click About Google Chrome.

A new tab will open and let y'all know which version of Chrome yous have — you want to exist on version 91.0.4472.164 — and information technology will download the update if you need it. After that, simply relaunch the browser.

Most Linux distributions will update Chrome equally part of their rolling update schedule, but you might have to fiddle with the software-repository settings to make certain your build reaches out to the Google update servers.

Updating other Chromium-based browsers is similar. In Brave, click the 3 vertical lines in the peak right corner, then coil downward to and click About Dauntless in the Settings menu. In Microsoft Border, click the three vertical dots in the top correct corner, then scroll downward to and mouse over Assist and Feedback and click About Microsoft Edge.

In Opera and Vivaldi, you click the browser icon on the acme left, and then scroll down to and mouse over Help and select Nearly.

As of this writing midday Friday (July 16) in New York, none of these other Chromium-based browsers had been updated to the latest version.

Brave uses the same version-numbering organization every bit Chrome and Chromium. Opera and Vivaldi utilise their own systems, merely the Chromium build number is visible on the Most pages nether User Agent. In Edge, type "edge://version/" into the address bar and striking Enter or Return to see the the Chromium build number under User Agent.

Recent Chrome updates

Here'due south a list of the almost recent Chrome updates so you can check to see if your browser is up to date.

July 15: 91.0.4472.164
June 24: 91.0.4472.123/.124
June 17: 91.0.4472.114
June 14: 91.0.4472.106
June nine: 91.0.4472.101
May 25: 91.0.4472.77
May 10: 90.0.4430.212
April 26: ninety.0.4430.93
April 20: 90.0.4430.85
April 14: 90.0.4430.72
Apr 13: 89.0.4389.128
March 30: 89.0.4389.114
March 12: 89.0.4389.ninety
March 5: 89.0.4389.82
March 2: 89.0.4389.72

Paul Wagenseil is a senior editor at Tom's Guide focused on security and privacy. He has as well been a dishwasher, fry cook, long-haul driver, lawmaking monkey and video editor. He'southward been rooting around in the information-security space for more than 15 years at FoxNews.com, SecurityNewsDaily, TechNewsDaily and Tom's Guide, has presented talks at the ShmooCon, DerbyCon and BSides Las Vegas hacker conferences, shown upwards in random TV news spots and even moderated a panel discussion at the CEDIA home-applied science conference. You tin follow his rants on Twitter at @snd_wagenseil.