Indian Government Issues High Alert Warning For Mozilla And Chrome Users: Do This To Stay Safe From Hackers

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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-level security warning for all Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users in the country. Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the mentioned browsers that can be exploited by hackers to steal your data or even cause the system to crash. The target audience for Google Chrome vulnerabilities is the people who use Chrome OS or ChromeOS Flex. On the other hand, the target audience for the Mozilla Firefox vulnerability is the people who use the base browser, ESR, or Thunderbird.

Affected Software By The Latest Vulnerabilities

-Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 144-Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 115.29-Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 140.4-Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 140.4-Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 144-Google ChromeOS version prior to 16404.45.0

Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Vulnerabilities: Risk And Impact

Starting with Mozilla, the vulnerability could allow hackers to access sensitive information from the affected computers. The impact of the same could be as big as data theft and complete compromise of the system. The flaws have been found in Mozilla products due to Use-after-free in MediaTrack-GraphImpl::GetInstance(), memory corruption, and API by web extensions on Windows. The address bar of the browser could be spoofed on Android using visibilitychange, and the spoofing risk is also there in Android custom tabs. In case of Google Chrome, the vulnerabilities exist due to Heap buffer overflow in Video, Sync, and WebGPU. A remote attacker could easily exploit them by persuading the victim to visit a specially developed web page.

Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Vulnerabilities: How To Stay Safe

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have both got patch updates that you need to download right now in order to stay safe from vulnerabilities. The best you can do is set either of the browsers you use on auto-update in your device so that you don't have to manually update them every time there is a change. That being said, if you are using an old version either of the browsers then please update it to stay safe.