Chrome Update Released to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google rolled out an emergency security patch to its Chrome web browser to address a security flaw that’s known to have an exploit in the wild.

The vulnerability has been described as use after free in Portals API, a web page navigation system that enables a page to show another page as an inset and “perform a seamless transition to a new state, where the formerlyinset page becomes the toplevel document.”