Google fixes 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in Chrome

Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities.

Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003, actively exploited in attacks in the wild.

Google fixed a total of seven vulnerabilities with the latest release of the popular browser.

CVE-2021-38000 is an insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents, the flaw was reported by Clement Lecigne, Neel Mehta, and Maddie Stone of Google Threat Analysis Group on 2021-09-15.

CVE-2021-38003 is an Inappropriate implementation in V8 open-source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. This vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne from Google TAG and Samuel Groß from Google Project Zero on 2021-10-26

“Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 exist in the wild.” reads the security advisory published by Google.

The IT giant did not reveal the details of the attacks exploiting the above flaws.

Google already addressed a total of fifteenth zero-day vulnerabilities since the beginning of the year, below is the complete list:

The full list of zero-days patched this year is:

• CVE-2021-21148 – February 4th, 2021
• CVE-2021-21166 – March 2nd, 2021
• CVE-2021-21193 – March 12th, 2021
• CVE-2021-21220 – April 13th, 2021
• CVE-2021-21224 – April 20th, 2021
• CVE-2021-30551 – June 9th, 2021
• CVE-2021-30554 – June 17th, 2021
• CVE-2021-30554 – June 17th, 2021
• CVE-2021-30563 – July 15th, 2021
• CVE-2021-30632 & CVE-2021-30633 – Sept 13th, 2021
• CVE-2021-37973 – Sept 24th, 2021
• CVE-2021-37975 and CVE-2021-37976 – Oct, 13st, 2021
• CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 – Oct, 28th 2021

Be sure to update your Chrome install to the latest 95.0.4638.69 version for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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