For the sixth time this year, Google has issued a patch for a zero-day flaw in Chrome. According to Bleeping Computer, the emergency security update fixes a flaw that is currently being exploited by hackers in the wild.
As per usual, Google is not issuing any further details about the vulnerability at this time: “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.”
The company did warn that this is a public exploit, which typically indicates that there has been active exploitation of the bug in the wild. In a security advisory released on Wednesday, Google stated that it is aware that an exploit fo