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Google releases Chrome security update to patch actively exploited zero-day – ZDNet
Google Chrome 86.0.4240.111 released with a fix.
Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 earlier today to deploy security fixes, including a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability.
The zero-day is tracked as CVE-2020-15999 and is described as a memory corruption bug in the FreeType font rendering library that’s included with standard Chrome distributions.
In-the-wild attacks leveraging this FreeType bug were discovered by security researchers from Project Zero, one of Google’s internal security teams.
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