chromebooks are simple and functional laptops especially for those who need a device for daytoday stuff like word processing browsing viewing multimedia content etc these laptops run chromeos and the ministry of electronics and information technologys indian computer emergency response team certin has issued a warning for select chromeos users cert has confirmed that the new vulnerabilities are found in the google chrome os lts channel version prior to 9604664214 platform version 14268890 also the government body has classified these vulnerabilities as highcert has noted that multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in google chrome which could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denialofservice condition on the targeted systemthese new vulnerabilities can be dangerous for chromeos users as attackers can exploit them by sending a specially crafted request also it can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denialofservice condition on the targeted system if they manage to exploit it successfully the government body has also provided the reason behind these vulnerabilities the official post mentions these vulnerabilities exist in google chrome due to inappropriate implementation in extensions use after free in indexed db messaging sharing tablet mode tab groups and bookmarks as a solution cert has asked its users to update the chrome os to its latest version it is important to note that google has already rolled out the chrome os update which addresses several bugs and issues with the operating system