--- title: New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update... description: Google releases Chrome 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The fix is for a heap buffer overflow flaw in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/new-chrome-browser-0-day-under-active-attack-update-immediately--yohsutkyu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately! | daily.dev og:description: Google releases Chrome 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The fix is for a heap buffer overflow flaw in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-chrome-browser-0-day-under-active-attack-update-immediately--yohsutkyu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yOHsuTKyu.png og:image:alt: New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately! **[The Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/thn)** · 61 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Google releases Chrome 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The fix is for a heap buffer overflow flaw in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine. The security flaw was reported to Google by Mattias Buelens on January 24. It's not immediately clear if CVE-2021-21148 was used in these attacks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@spiritbreaker** · 2 upvotes > Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. You should update Chrome now **@neeraj1005** · 0 upvotes > Is there are some vulnerability? **@adilabbasi** · 0 upvotes > "Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix" > > Google Chrome Release updates from the Chrome team -> > https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_4.html **@therod** · 0 upvotes > You can request a safety check in Chrome's settings for those unsure. It will surely tell you if anything is compromised **@kishon** · 0 upvotes > Woah... That is some dangerous shizz right there... let's hope it's already fixed --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber), [#google-chrome](https://daily.dev/tags/google-chrome) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/new-chrome-browser-0-day-under-active-attack-update-immediately--yohsutkyu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/new-chrome-browser-0-day-under-active-attack-update-immediately--yohsutkyu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/new-chrome-browser-0-day-under-active-attack-update-immediately--yohsutkyu"},"datePublished":"2021-02-05T07:43:16.552Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Google releases Chrome 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 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You should update Chrome now","datePublished":"2021-02-05T17:12:41.934Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yOHsuTKyu#c-0XzNAKEFj","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jason Stathopulos","url":"https://daily.dev/spiritbreaker","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/5447807?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Is there are some vulnerability?","datePublished":"2021-02-05T18:40:57.515Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yOHsuTKyu#c-V-B1SKmy_","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Neeraj Singh Tangariya","url":"https://daily.dev/neeraj1005","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GjX9wb8Rxn2w3QhkBxwR465ZOzsMUAYCuqGnUwwrQ=s100"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"“Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix”\nGoogle Chrome Release updates from the Chrome team -> \nhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_4.html","datePublished":"2021-02-12T04:24:46.894Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yOHsuTKyu#c-bmmvJsTTs","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Adil Abbasi","url":"https://daily.dev/adilabbasi","image":"https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0tRIbUT-XzQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/AMZuucmyrDWHFXN3nX8yCOLsiIYZ3xnFZw/s100/photo.jpg"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"You can request a safety check in Chrome’s settings for those unsure. It will surely tell you if anything is compromised","datePublished":"2021-02-08T17:09:24.468Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yOHsuTKyu#c-aJQ6zaNeh","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Roderick Hollingsworth","url":"https://daily.dev/therod","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/75183667?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Woah… That is some dangerous shizz right there… let’s hope it’s already fixed","datePublished":"2021-02-06T07:21:35.255Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yOHsuTKyu#c-h9yIcOsn8","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kishon_Shrill","url":"https://daily.dev/kishon","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/70144266?v=4"}}]} ```