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The Indian Government Issues A Serious Google Chrome Security Warning: Here’s What You Should Know

The Indian government has sent a serious caution notice this month over the ongoing security dangers to Google Chrome. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has released the most recent Chrome security alert, dated May 22, with a high severity rating that should worry millions of Chrome users in the nation.

WHAT DOES THE certificate-IN SECURITY WARNING SAY?

A number of Chrome vulnerabilities have been identified, which might give a remote attacker the ability to run arbitrary code on the machine they are targeting. the highlighted security alert. According to CERT-In, Chrome has these vulnerabilities in the following components:

In Angle and Dawn, heap buffer overflow occurs when a program tries to write more data in a designated area of memory than it should.

Use after free in scheduling: This is related to Chrome’s improper use of dynamic memory

When accessing a file type that is incompatible, type confusion occurs in V8, which affects a significant portion of the browser.

Put another way, if the attacker is able to take advantage of these vulnerabilities and get past the system’s security, they may be able to trick the victim into visiting a malicious website that might be very harmful. Therefore, you must ensure that the following browser versions are not installed on your system if you have been using Chrome on Windows, macOS, or a Linux computer:

Google Chrome versions for Windows and Mac earlier than 125.0.6422.76/.77

Google Chrome versions for Linux earlier than 125.0.6422.76

CHOCOLATE SECURITY WARNING: SUGGESTIONS FOR USERS
Users of Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems must download the most recent version of Google Chrome in order to be secure. To do this, go to the Settings—About—Update Chrome menu from the three dots on Chrome. The security updates included in the stable channel update are provided by Google.

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