Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users

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Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users

In an attempt to protect users and buy them time to upgrade, Google is keeping the details surrounding CVE-2021-37973 a closely guarded secret. All the company would provide were its threat ranking, what part of Chrome had been exploited and that it was discovered in-house by Google employees:

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Oh oh, i know another 0-day! :grimacing:
It’s proprietary Goolag’s garbage.

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Yup, and yet peeps still use it. :exploding_head:

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If your Chrome version is 94.0.4606.61 or higher, you are safe.

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If it is in the portals code, wouldn’t that mean the open source chromium was effected as well?

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It appears so, according to MS;

The vulnerability assigned to this CVE is in Chromium Open Source Software (OSS) which is consumed by Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)

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Yes, although i’ve meant the “unknown” ones :upside_down_face:

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At the moment, as I write, Chromium is patched, but Vivaldi and Opera are not yet patched:

https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-37973

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