
The V8 JavaScript engine which was developed at Google and has set a new standard in In contrast to Safari, though, Chrome uses Starting with version 28, Google has used its own fork of Webkit called Blink in Chrome. High performance and standards compatibility and also powers most mobile browsers. The open source project Webkit to perform the HTML rendering. Google says it "is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-30632 and CVE-2021-30633 exist in the wild." The company didn't offer more information about those vulnerabilities, however, because access to those details "may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix." It could be a while before Chrome users know what exactly they're being protected from.Just like Apple does with their Safari browser, Chrome builds upon Those guidelines organize vulnerabilities into six tiers of descending severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low, "Can't impact Chrome users by default," and "Not a security bug." Google says that security flaws considered to be High severity "allow an attacker to execute code in the context of or otherwise impersonate other origins or read cross-origin data."

82 contains fixes for 11 vulnerabilities, nine of which were discovered and disclosed by outside researchers, and all of which Google deems "High" severity based on its own severity guidelines (Opens in a new window). The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has advised (Opens in a new window) Google Chrome users to install the latest version of the browser to mitigate the effects of numerous vulnerabilities.ĬISA says it "encourages users and administrators to review the Chrome Release Note and apply the necessary updates." That note (Opens in a new window) says Chrome version.

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