Security News > 2024 > August > New Chrome zero-day actively exploited, patch quickly! (CVE-2024-7971)
2024-08-22 08:47
A new Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-7971) exploited by attackers in the wild has been fixed by Google. About CVE-2024-7971 CVE-2024-7971 is a high-severity vulnerability caused by a type confusion weakness in V8, the open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine developed by Google for the Chromium and Google Chrome web browsers. “In languages without memory safety, such as C and C++, type confusion can lead to out-of-bounds memory access,” Mitre explains the problem. (V8 is written in … More → The post New Chrome zero-day actively exploited, patch quickly! (CVE-2024-7971) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-21 | CVE-2024-7971 | Type Confusion vulnerability in multiple products Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 9.6 |