Google urgently warns
all its users to update to the latest version of Chrome and thus patch two
Serious vulnerabilities that hackers can actively exploit.
The company declined to give details
of the vulnerability but the Chrome security team has communicated that both
Problems are Use-after-free vulnerabilities. One of the
vulnerabilities reside in browser audio, while the other in the PDFium library.
These security flaws are of the type known as corruption
in memory, that allow the modification of the data in memory of a system with what a
attacker could start escalating privileges on affected computer.
These vulnerabilities are severe
by the fact that the attacker could take full control over the browser and
forcing users to visit malicious websites.