Google Releases Patch for Chrome Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Google released an emergency Chrome update addressing 74 vulnerabilities (17 critical, 55 high, 2 medium), including CVE-2026-11645 — a high-severity (8.8) V8 out-of-bounds read/write that enables remote arbitrary code execution in a sandbox and has been exploited in the wild; Google awarded the reporter $55,000 and is rolling out fixes across Windows, macOS, and Linux while restricting detailed disclosure until users are patched.