Google Patches Dozens Of Vulnerabilities In Chrome, Update ASAP
By Lane Babuder, Hot Hardware Another day another vulnerability. This one's a doozy, though. The Stable Channel for the desktop edition of Chrome had an update on April 26, 2022. That update includes no less than 30 security fixes, half a dozen of which are rated as "High" severity flaws. The release notes for Google's Chrome v101.0.4951.41 for Windows, Mac, and Linux has a long list of bug fixes; you can view it here . However, there's also an interesting statement in that page. "Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed." Effectively the the non-developer translation of the quote above is that these are serious enough to keep the details hidden from the public to avoid bad actors pouncing on them with exploits. We can tell you a good portion of the...