Chrome and Firefox Updated to Patch Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities

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Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have released new versions to address a significant number of vulnerabilities, totaling over 70 across both browsers. The updates include fixes for critical and high-severity memory safety bugs, such as use-after-free issues, which could potentially be exploited for remote code execution and sandbox escapes. While Google has not reported any in-the-wild exploitation for Chrome's patched flaws, Mozilla warns of potential arbitrary code execution risks in Firefox.

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Fresh Chrome and Firefox updates are now rolling out with fixes for over 70 vulnerabilities, including critical and high-severity memory safety bugs that could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE). Chrome has been updated to versions 149.0.7827.155/.156 for Windows and macOS and version 149.0.7827.155 for Linux to resolve 33 security defects, 32 of which were found by Google. Of the seven critical-severity flaws mentioned in Google’s advisory, six are use-after-free issues, a type of memory safety bug that could be exploited for RCE. In Chrome, these weaknesses could lead to sandbox escape if combined with the exploitation of vulnerabilities in the operating system or in a privileged browser process. The fresh Chrome release also patches 26 high-severity bugs, including eight use-after-free flaws, along with insufficient data validation, inappropriate implementation, out-of-bounds read, incorrect security UI, heap buffer overflow, and uninitialized use issues. Google makes no mention of any of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Firefox 152 was released to the stable channel with fixes for 40 vulnerabilities, including 13 high-severity use-after-free, privilege escalation, incorrect boundary condition, sandbox escape, JIT miscompilation, and memory safety bugs. Some of the resolved memory safety flaws could potentially be exploited for arbitrary code execution, Mozilla warns. On Wednesday, Mozilla also released security updates to address these vulnerabilities in Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, and Firefox for iOS. Additional information can be found on Mozilla’s advisories page. 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