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YOU SHOULD UPDATE CHROME AND EDGE ASAP


TWO POPULAR BROWSERS, GOOGLE CHROME AND MICROSOFT EDGE, REQUIRE UPDATES.

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Jake Peterson

3/28/22 11:30AM

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There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and software updates.
Programs like Chrome can never be perfect, and security flaws will inevitability
be discovered—the goal is just to squash those flaws with an update before bad
actors can take advantage of them. Today, Chrome and Edge users find themselves
in such a situation.


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WHAT’S WRONG WITH GOOGLE CHROME?

Google dropped a new update for Chrome (version 99.0.4844.84) on Friday, March
25, with an accompanying changelog detailing a single security vulnerability.
The zero-day flaw, CVE-2022-1096, is identified as high severity, and is a type
confusion weakness in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine.





Type confusion flaws occur when code reads or writes memory of the wrong type
without checking ahead of time. While that often leads to the software simply
failing, it can allow bad actors to exploit that process in order to run their
own code.

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The interesting thing about this update, however, is Google’s lack of detail
about the flaw’s exploitation. The company confirmed the existence of attacks in
the wild exploiting CVE-2022-1096, but didn’t elaborate beyond that. Google
clearly wants enough users to update their browsers before sharing more
information about this zero-day flaw in order to prevent more hackers from
taking advantage of it.

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WHY DO MICROSOFT EDGE USERS NEED TO UPDATE?

While it’s obvious to Chrome users to update their browsers, it’s important that
Edge users do so as well. That’s because Microsoft built their browser using
Chromium, the open-source codebase Chrome is powered by. Because they are both
Chromium browsers, Chrome and Edge alike are threatened by this zero-day flaw,
and need to be updated immediately.


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HOW TO UPDATE CHROME AND EDGE

Fortunately, it’s easy to check for updates for both browsers. Just click the
three dots in the top-right corner of your browser window, head to “Help”
(Chrome) or “Help and feedback” (Edge), then choose “About Google Chrome” or
“About Microsoft Edge.” Here, you’ll be able to see if there is an available
update to install. If so, go ahead and do so as soon as possible.

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