Security News > 2023 > October > Exploit writers invited to probe Chrome’s V8 engine, Google Cloud’s KVM

Google is asking bug hunters and exploit writers to develop 0-day and n-day exploits in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine and Google Cloud's Kernel-based Virtual Machine.

The exploit writers should make their exploitation attempts against a V8 version running on Google infrastructure.

In the latter case, the bug hunter is eligible to receive a reward for the discovered zero-day under the Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program, and a reward for the 0-day exploit under the v8CTF reward program - but they have to make sure the two submissions are sent from the same email address.

Google will pay $34,999 for arbitrary memory write exploits and $24,999 for arbitrary memory read exploits.

Finally, a successful denial-of-service exploit affecting the host will be rewarded with $14,999.

"KvmCTF is is focused on making exploiting Kernel-based Virtual Machine vulnerabilities harder by inviting security researchers to demonstrate their exploitation techniques on 0-day and 1-day vulnerabilities on LTS kernel versions. Eventually we might add experimental mitigations to KVM that we would like to see if and how researchers can bypass them," Google says.

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