Google Chrome Deadline—72 Hours To Update Or Delete Your Browser

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Google Chrome Deadline—72 Hours To Update Or Delete Your Browser
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Updated June 3 with details of second CISA deadline and ad blocker warning.: four zero-days and emergency update warnings inside ten days, launched a tidal wave of wall-to-wall headlines that were hard to miss.

The US government has warned federal employees to install May’s emergency updates or to cease using Chrome. They issued a June 3 deadline for the first of those updates to be applied and a June 6 update for the second. It’s now June 3, and so you should have already applied the first update. This is a timely reminder that you must ensure you have applied the second update within the next 72 hours. Clearly, when you update your browser, all fixes to that point will be applied.

Others organizations should do the same and mandate full employee compliance, as should personal users. Google rushed out emergency fixes for a reason.It looks like June 3 will be a significant day all round for Chrome. Not only is that the US government’s first update cutoff, but it’s also the day Google will start to pull the plug on many of the Manifest V2 extensions as its rollout of Manifest V3 takes shape.

The US Government warnings comes via its Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency adding May’s Chrome warnings to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (With the procession of emergency updates having paused, at least for now, it’s a good time to issue reminder communications and apply whatever automated processes you have available across your organization. Clearly, home users should update as well.

The first of those vulnerabilities, a “Use after free in Visuals,” was reported on May 9 and added to KEV on May 13. “Google Chromium Visuals contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page,” CISA warns. “This vulnerability could affect multiple web browsers that utilize Chromium, including… Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera.

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