Chrome users need to ensure their browser is up to date as Google confirms new high-rated security issues
. While this update will roll out automatically, users who don't restart their browser regularly are advised to check manually and force the security patch activation.In total, this update to Chrome 103.0.5060.134 fixes 11 security issues. Five of these were discovered by internal security audits and 'fuzzing' which is an automatic process looking for exceptions when providing unexpected or random inputs. The remaining six issues are vulnerabilities uncovered by security researchers.
where attackers are known to be already exploiting them in the wild. It would also appear that there are no security fixes in the Android Chrome update announced at the same time.Five of the six vulnerabilities are rated as high impact, with the sixth being a low impact issue. In total, $33,500 in bug bounties was awarded to the researchers who disclosed the vulnerabilities. Some $23,000 of this went to just two researchers, one of which, surprisingly, was for that low-impact vulnerability.
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