Security News > 2024 > January > Zero-Day Alert: Update Chrome Now to Fix New Actively Exploited Vulnerability
2024-01-17 02:20
Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, concerns an out-of-bounds memory access in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, which can be weaponized by threat actors to trigger a crash. "By reading out-of-bounds memory, an attacker might be able to get secret values,
News URL
https://thehackernews.com/2024/01/zero-day-alert-update-chrome-now-to-fix.html
Related news
- Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox Bug Similar to Chrome’s Recent Zero-Day Vulnerability (source)
- Apple Patches Actively Exploited iOS Zero-Day CVE-2025-24200 in Emergency Update (source)
- PostgreSQL Vulnerability Exploited Alongside BeyondTrust Zero-Day in Targeted Attacks (source)
- Apple Releases Patch for WebKit Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in Targeted Attacks (source)
- Google fixes Chrome zero-day exploited in espionage campaign (source)
- Google fixes exploited Chrome sandbox bypass zero-day (CVE-2025-2783) (source)
- Zero-Day Alert: Google Releases Chrome Patch for Exploit Used in Russian Espionage Attacks (source)
- After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug (source)
Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-16 | CVE-2024-0519 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.224 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |