Chrome flaw has public exploit, WebKit hole actively abused along with kernel escalation
While Google isn't aware of any exploits for the remaining bugs on today's list, one received a critical-severity rating and it deemed five others high severity.
The Center for Internet Security, which ranked the risk of these Chrome vulnerabilities as"high" for large and medium government agencies and businesses, and"medium" for small government and companies, warned the most severe of the bugs would allow an attacker to execute malicious code"in the context of the logged-on user."
"Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights," CIS explained in a."Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights."
In addition to the bug under active exploit, Google detailed nine of the 11 bugs in its update .
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