There’s an outdated Harry James track I’ve heard earlier than — it’s known as “I’ve Heard That Tune Earlier than” — and recently it involves thoughts at any time when I hear that I have to replace my Chrome browser straight away. Like when Google finds one other zero-day safety exploit that must be patched instantly. Like right now, as an example.

Critically, go replace Chrome proper now.

As BleepingComputer notes, that is the ninth time this yr that Google has found and patched a safety vulnerability within the Chrome browser. And even for those who’re uninterested in listening to this, the patch is important and pressing as a result of this vulnerability is being exploited “within the wild.”

The massive replace for right now addresses problem CVE-2024-7971, a “sort confusion” vulnerability that exploits an error in Google’s customized JavaScript engine. The problem was really found by Microsoft’s Menace Intelligence Middle and Safety Response Middle final month, however neither firm is explaining precisely how the exploit is applied.

Microsoft is nominally Google’s competitor, in fact, however it has a vested curiosity in Chrome. Google’s browser isn’t simply probably the most dominant net browser on the planet by a longshot, however it’s additionally a kind of kissing cousin to Microsoft’s Edge browser (as they’re each primarily based on Google’s open-source Chromium venture).

As we speak’s Chrome replace additionally contains seven different patches famous as excessive precedence, plus 13 others of medium or low precedence. Model 128.0.6613.84 is the one you need to be on for Home windows and Linux, 128.0.6613.85 for Mac.

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