Google Chrome Updates
3150Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
3 November, 2020
● High
2020-2006
All
Description:
Google has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome for Android and Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Bypass of a protection mechanism
- Buffer overflow
- Memory corruption -remotely
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to update the browser to 85.0.4183.121(Desktop) and to Chrome 86 (86.0.4240.185) (Android), for more details, please follow the below links:
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/chrome-for-android-update.html
The browser supports automatic updating to the latest available version.
Update Instruction (Desktop Browser):
- Open Chrome.
- At the top right, click More » Help » About Google Chrome.
- The current version number is the series of numbers beneath the "Google Chrome" heading.
- Chrome will check for updates when you are on this page.
- Click Relaunch to apply any available update.
- Click Restart.
Update Chrome for Android through Google Play store.