CVE-2024-2887
Google tags a tenth Chrome zero-day as exploited this year
Today, Google revealed that it patched the tenth zero-day exploited in the wild in 2024 by attackers or security researchers during hacking contests. Tracked as CVE-2024-7965 and reported by a security researcher known only as TheDog, the now-patched high-severity vulnerability is caused by a bug in the compiler backend when selecting the instructions to generate for just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Google […]
Google fixes ninth Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year
Today, Google released a new Chrome emergency security update to patch a zero-day vulnerability tagged as exploited in attacks. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-7971 exists in the wild,” the company said in an advisory published on Wednesday. This high-severity zero-day vulnerability is caused by a type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Security researchers with […]