Google on Tuesday updated Chrome, patching a flaw in the browser's copy of Flash Player.

The move let Chrome beat rival browsers to the punch: Users of Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Safari and Opera won't receive a Flash update from Adobe until next week.

On Monday, Adobe announced that attackers are exploiting an unpatched, or "zero-day," vulnerability in Flash Player using malicious Microsoft Excel documents attached to e-mail messages. Adobe said it would patch Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux sometime next week, but did not put a date on the calendar.

Yesterday, Google pushed a Chrome update to users running the stable and beta builds of the browser.

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