Google's Threat Analysis Group has confirmed that the popular Chrome browser is under attack by a zero-day exploit that could allow hackers to gain access to the user's computer, run remote code and install malware without the user knowing. Here's how to fix it.
over at ZDNet suggests that there are malicious PDF files in the wild that are being used to exploit this vulnerability."The PDF documents would contact a remote domain with information on the users' device --such as IP address, OS version, Chrome version, and the path of the PDF file on the user's computer," Cimpanu says. These could just be used for tracking purposes, but there is also the potential for more malicious behavior.
Travis Biehn, technical strategist and research lead at Synopsys, said"Google Chrome is some of the most robustly engineered C and C++ code on the planet, the security teams working on Chrome are world-class. Despite Google's security program, and despite their active collaboration with leading security researchers through generous bug bounty programs, it still suffers from memory corruption attacks related to the use of C and C++.
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