Google Chrome Update 108.0.5359.124 for Windows available

Google has released an updated version of the Chrome web browser. It fixes four high-risk vulnerabilities.

Overall the new version of the Chrome web browser fixes eight security-related bugs. Google classifies four of them as high risk and one as medium risk. The developers do not provide any further information on the other vulnerabilities.

All vulnerabilities for which Google provides brief information in the release notes are of the use-after-free type. The program code accesses memory areas or pointers after they have already been released. As a result, the content found there is initially undefined, but attackers can often fill it with their own code using other means, which is then executed when the vulnerability occurs.

In Google Chrome 108.0.5359.128 for Android, 108.0.5359.112 for iOS, 108.0.5359.124 for Linux and Mac and 108.0.5359.124/.125 for Windows the Google programmers have fixed these vulnerabilities.

Google intends to distribute the updated browser versions over the coming days and weeks. Chrome users can check for themselves whether the browser is up to date with the latest software and possibly speed up the update. All you have to do is click on the settings menu. Check the symbol with the three stacked dots at the top right next to the address bar. Then the path Help / About Google Chrome brings up the version dialog.

If the version is already up to date, the dialog only shows the number. Otherwise, the download and installation of the update will now start, which will then be completed by manually restarting the browser. Linux users, on the other hand, have to contact the software management of their distribution in order to have the update installed.

10 days ago, Google already released an emergency update for Chrome. A high-risk vulnerability was already being actively exploited in the wild.