Yesterday I got the latest Chrome emergency update hitting my test PCs and my test Macs. By my count that’s the eighth one of the year which is insane. This one which is tracked as CVE-2023-7024 was the eighth Chrome zero-day patched by Google this year. The flaw was described as a heap buffer overflow in WebRTC. An advisory from Google has more details.
To make sure you’re protected against this flaw, here’s what you should be running when it comes to Chrome:
Google said the Stable channel has been updated for desktops to
- 120.0.6099.129 for Macs and Linux machines
- 120.0.6099.129/130 for Windows machines.
On top of that, you should update any other Chromium based browser like Opera or Microsoft Edge as well to make sure you’re safe.
Now, on one hand it’s good that Google is patching these flaws. But at the same time it’s bad that they have so many. Thus you might want to pick another option for your browsing needs. Just a thought.