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Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Fix Critical Vulnerability

2/16/2026

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Google released an emergency Chrome update on February 16, 2026 to fix the high-severity zero-day vulnerability CVE-2026-2441.
The vulnerability is a use-after-free in the CSS component that enables remote code execution in a sandbox via a malicious HTML page, reported by security researcher Shaheen Fazim on February 11.
Google has not disclosed details about ongoing exploitation or targets; users should update Chrome versions 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/macOS or 144.0.7559.75 for Linux.

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Story summary

Google released an emergency Chrome update on February 16, 2026 to fix the high-severity zero-day vulnerability CVE-2026-2441.
The vulnerability is a use-after-free in the CSS component that enables remote code execution in a sandbox via a malicious HTML page, reported by security researcher Shaheen Fazim on February 11.
Google has not disclosed details about ongoing exploitation or targets; users should update Chrome versions 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/macOS or 144.0.7559.75 for Linux.