Google has released version 137.0.7151.68/.69 for Chrome for Windows and Mac and 137.0.7151.68 for Chrome for Linux which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. The updates address two high severity vulnerabilities in the V8 JavaScript engine.
CVE-2025-5419 has a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 and is an “out of bounds read and write” vulnerability in V8 in Google Chrome. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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