Google Chrome 151 Patches Five High-Severity Use-After-Free Flaws in V8, Blink, and Extensions
Brief
Google has officially released Chrome 151 to the Stable channel, mitigating five high-severity security vulnerabilities impacting key browser engine components, including the V8 JavaScript engine, Blink rendering engine, Chrome Extensions framework, HTML processing layer, and TabStrip.
The update is currently rolling out as version 151.
- 7922. 137/. 138 for Windows and macOS, while Linux systems receive version 151.
- 7922.
- Google noted that the update will reach all users worldwide over the coming days and weeks.
Chrome 151 Patches Five High-Severity Flaws
All five vulnerabilities addressed in Chrome 151 belong to the use-after-free (UAF) memory safety class, which occurs when software continues to access memory after it has been deallocated.