ESET Patches High-Severity Vulnerability in Windows Applications

eset-patches-high-severity-vulnerability-in-windows-applications

Antivirus firm ESET on Monday announced patches for a local privilege escalation vulnerability impacting its Windows clients.

Tracked as CVE-2021-37852 and reported to ESET by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability is considered “high severity,” as it could allow an attacker to misuse the AMSI scanning feature.

read more

Google Patches 27 Vulnerabilities With Release of Chrome 98

google-patches-27-vulnerabilities-with-release-of-chrome-98

Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 98 in the stable channel with a total of 27 security fixes inside, including 19 for vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.

The most severe of these security defects could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the Chrome browser has on the target system.

read more