Google has released an emergency fix for the Chrome zero-day vulnerability.
Google Issues Emergency Fix for Chrome Zero-Day Google has released an emergency security fix for Chrome 99 to address a vulnerability that has already been publicly exploited. The security flaw, dubbed CVE-2022-1096 and rated as high-severity, is described as a Type Confusion fault in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. The bug was reported by an anonymous researcher, according to Google, and the business has yet to calculate the bug bounty amount for this issue. "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 has been discovered in the wild," the company says in its alert, without going into detail about the vulnerability or the exploitation it discovered. Chrome 99.0.4844.84 includes a fix for this problem, which is currently available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. Google has fixed CVE-2022-1096, the second Chrome zero-day this year. The first Chrome zero-day, identified as CVE-2022-0609 and fixed in February, was used by at least two North Korean threat ac