Earlier this week, popular internet browser Microsoft Edge was alerted to various vulnerabilities by the Indian government’s Computer Emergency Response Team. The problems affected Microsoft Edge browser versions before 103.0.1264.71 and assigned it a high severity level.
The vulnerabilities give a remote attacker the ability to get beyond security measures and run arbitrary code or launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the impacted system.
The advisory observed that these vulnerabilities exist in Chromium Open-Source Software (OSS) which is consumed by Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) due to Use after free in Guest View, Use after free in PDF, Use after free in Service Worker API, Use after free in Views and Insufficient validation of untrusted input in File.
By sending the impacted device a carefully crafted request, hackers might remotely exploit these flaws. Users are required to install the proper patches in accordance with the Release Notes for Microsoft Edge Security Updates.
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