Google Chrome on desktop is affect by multiple vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to gain access to sensitive information and bypass security restrictions, the government has warn users through a note release by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).
The nodal agency for cybersecurity threats has advise Google Chrome users in the country to update the browser on their systems to avoid security issues.
Google had acknowledge the loopholes exist within the Google Chrome browser and release its update.
CERT-In said in the vulnerability note that the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code on the browser and even cause buffer overflow an attempt to write more data to a fix length block of memory to corrupt the software on the target system.
The agency has given a ‘high’ severity rating to the issues impacting the Google Chrome browser.
These vulnerabilities exist due to inappropriate implementation in elements including WebGL, Extensions API, Input, HTML Parser, Web Authentication, and iFrame, heap buffer overflow in WebGPU and Web UI Settings, out-of-bounds memory access in UI Shelf, insufficient data validation in Blink Editing,
Trusted Types, and Dev Tools, and incorrect security interface in Downloads.
There were the Use-after-free flaws in elements including Vulkan, SwiftShader, Angle, Device API, Sharing, File System, API, Ozone, Browser Switcher, Bookmarks, Dev Tools, and File Manager and Type Confusion issue in V8 JavaScript engine, CERT-In explain in its note.
Google had acknowledge the issues that are now cover by the Indian agency in a blog post released last month.
Google also release the Google Chrome version 101.0.4951.41 for Windows, macOS, and Linux to patch the known issues.
This update include a total of 29 security fixes.
CERT-In has urge Google Chrome users to install the latest version to patch the vulnerabilities that are in the public and could easily be exploit by an attacker.
