Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address a vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild.

Google on Friday released emergency fixes to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3075, in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild.

The CVE-2022-3075 flaw is caused by insufficient data validating in Mojo. Mojo is a collection of runtime libraries providing a platform-agnostic abstraction of common IPC primitives, a message IDL format, and a bindings library with code generation for multiple target languages to facilitate convenient message passing across arbitrary inter- and intra-process boundaries.

The vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher on August 30, 2022.

“Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-3075 exists in the wild.” reads the advisory published by Google.

An anonymous researcher has been credited with reporting the high-severity flaw on August 30, 2022.

This is the sixth zero-day vulnerability in Chrome that the IT giant addressed in 2022, the previous ones are:

CVE-2022-2856 (August 17) – Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents
CVE-2022-2294 (July 4) – Heap buffer overflow in the Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) component
CVE-2022-1364 (April 14) – type confusion issue that resides in the V8 JavaScript engine
CVE-2022-1096 – (March 25) – type Confusion in V8 JavaScript engine
CVE-2022-0609 – (February 14) – use after free issue that resides in the Animation component.

Users should update to version 105.0.5195.102 for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The issue also affects other Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Opera.

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook

[adrotate banner=”9″]

[adrotate banner=”12″]

Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Chrome)

[adrotate banner=”5″]

[adrotate banner=”13″]

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.