Google has released Chrome updates 99.0.4844.74 and 98.0.4758.132 (Extended Stable), which fix 11 vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-0971), which allows you to bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code on the system outside the sandbox -environment. Details have not yet been disclosed, it is only known that the critical vulnerability is associated with accessing already freed memory (use-after-free) in the Blink browser engine.
Other fixed vulnerabilities include problems with accessing already freed memory in the Safe Browsing mechanism, API Extensions, Splitscreen, user interface implementation, the start page (New Tab) and the ANGLE layer, which is responsible for translating OpenGL ES calls to OpenGL, Direct3D 9/11 , Desktop GL and Vulkan. In addition, the update eliminates a buffer overflow in the GPU code.
Source: opennet.ru