Security News > 2023 > September > Update Chrome Now: Google Releases Patch for Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
2023-09-28 03:13
Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google and the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Exploitation of such buffer overflow flaws can
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-28 | CVE-2023-5217 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. network low complexity webmproject microsoft mozilla fedoraproject debian apple google redhat CWE-787 | 8.8 |