Security News > 2022 > October > Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google on Thursday rolled out emergency fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3723, has been described as a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine.
Security researchers Jan Vojtěšek, Milánek, and Przemek Gmerek of Avast have been credited with reporting the flaw on October 25, 2022.
"Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2022-3723 exists in the wild," the internet giant acknowledged in an advisory without getting into more specifics about the nature of the attacks.
CVE-2022-3723 is the third actively exploited type confusion bug in V8 this year after CVE-2022-1096 and CVE-2022-1364.
The latest fix also marks the resolution of the seventh zero-day in Google Chrome since the start of 2022 -.
News URL
https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/google-issues-urgent-chrome-update-to.html
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-01 | CVE-2022-3723 | Type Confusion vulnerability in Google Chrome Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.87 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |
| 2022-07-26 | CVE-2022-1364 | Type Confusion vulnerability in Google Chrome Type confusion in V8 Turbofan in Google Chrome prior to 100.0.4896.127 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |
| 2022-07-23 | CVE-2022-1096 | Type Confusion vulnerability in Google Chrome Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.84 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |