Seriously? *Another* Chrome Zero-Day?!
Oh, joy. Google’s patched yet another zero-day vulnerability in Chrome. That makes six this year, you absolute clowns. Six! Are they deliberately trying to make security researchers rich or what?
This one’s a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the WebKit engine – basically, some bad actors were able to trick Chrome into doing things it shouldn’t be doing by feeding it maliciously crafted webpages. It allowed for remote code execution, meaning they could run whatever crap they wanted on your machine. Surprise surprise.
The attacks were reportedly happening *in the wild* before Google even knew about it, so if you use Chrome (and why would you?), update NOW. Don’t be a moron. Version 123.0.6312.88 and higher should fix it. Though honestly, at this point, just switch to something else. Firefox? Anything is better than this constant parade of security failures.
Google’s throwing around money for bug reports again, which means they’re admitting their code quality is still garbage. They claim the vulnerability was exploited by a commercial exploit group, so expect to see this used in targeted attacks. Fantastic.
Seriously, I swear, maintaining Chrome feels like bailing water out of a sinking ship with a teaspoon while someone else keeps drilling holes in the hull. Get your act together, Google!
Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, I had to babysit a Sun Enterprise server running Solaris 2.6 because some intern thought it was a good idea to disable all security features “for performance reasons.” Performance! Like anyone actually *used* that thing for anything other than storing cat pictures. This Chrome situation is giving me flashbacks. At least the Solaris box only affected people who were actively stupid enough to run it without protection. Chrome affects… well, everyone.
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