Chrome 153 Patches 16 Security Vulnerabilities Including Critical Dawn and WebGL Flaws
Brief
Google has released Chrome 153 to the Stable channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing 16 security vulnerabilities, including two critical memory-safety flaws in Dawn and WebGL.
The update is rolling out as version 153.
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- The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-93374, is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Dawn , Chrome’s implementation of the WebGPU graphics API.
Use-after-free bugs occur when software continues accessing memory after releasing it. In browser environments, such flaws can potentially enable attackers to corrupt memory, crash the browser, or execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted website or web application.
Florian Schweitzer reported the Dawn vulnerability to Google on April 8, 2026.