Security gaps are never a good thing, but it is particularly unpleasant when they become known before a suitable update is available. Especially when you can get into all sorts of mischief with it. Security researcher Jose Pino has discovered a problem he dubbed “Brash” that causes all current Chromium-based browsers to crash. So potentially several billion systems are affected. If you want, you can also understand the whole thing as a criticism of the state of the browser world, as this shows how far the monoculture has advanced in the software basis of all the supposedly different products.
