Google plugs high-risk hole in Chrome browser

by Graham Cluley on July 17, 2009 | Comments Off

Filed Under: Vulnerability

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Hot on the heels of a serious security update for its rival Mozilla Firefox, Google has released version 2.0.172.37 of its Chrome web browser which fixes a couple of security holes that could be exploited by users visiting a booby-trapped website.

According to a statement on Google's Chrome release blog, the more critical vulnerability might allow a hacker to run code with the user's privileges.

If you're running Google Chrome then it should be automatically looking for updates via its self-updating facility.

Hopefully this vulnerability won't matter for most of you though, as judging by the stats for web visitors to the Clu-blog only 3.61% of you are using Chrome. That's behind Firefox and Safari for Macs at 3.95% and 5.40% respectively, and the titans of Firefox for Windows at 30.33% and Internet Explorer for Windows at 49.86%.

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Graham Cluley is senior technology consultant at Sophos. The readers of Computer Weekly voted him security blogger of the year in 2009 and 2010, and he pipped Stephen Fry to the title of "Twitter user of the year" too. Which was nice. He was also named "Best Security Blogger" by the readers of SC Magazine in 2011. You can subscribe to Graham's updates on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and circle him on Google Plus for regular updates.