Google releases an update as important as ever on your Chrome web browser. Important for the fact that it goes to solve an important security hole for all operating systems by bypassing the "zero-day" type bug capable of being exploited by attackers to perform some attacks. The new updated version of Chrome turns out to be the version 80.0.3987.122 the browser app for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Chrome OS, iOS, and Android operating systems.
Google Chrome: update as soon as possible
The vulnerability found by Google engineers and not only would have been classified as CVE-2020-6418 and would cover the JavaScript search engine of Chrome in its component called V8. In this case the security flaw that was discovered would create a "type confusion" error that is, a real bug of the code capable of going to initialize through an app data execution operations using inputs of a specific "type" but induced however to the treatment of inputs as a different "type".
In a nutshell what does it mean? It means that the error does nothing but cause one different Chrome memory management leading to situations of "holes" in which an expert hacker could exploit them to execute dangerous code inside the program. Moreover, the same Google has already reported some attacks already underway by hackers.
The advice is to update the version of the Chrome web browser as soon as possible. The Mountain View company has already released the new version, that is 80.0.3987.122, which allows to solve this important security bug by applying patches. Third only in chronological order this new bug. On Chrome since March last year, Google has had to fix the first one "Zero-day" on the version of Chrome 72.0.3626.121 but also in November with a second important misstep resolved with the version of Chrome 78.0.3904.8.
