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Google tags a tenth Chrome zero-day as exploited this year

August 27, 2024August 27, 2024 geekfeed0Tagged Actively Exploited, CVE-2024-0519, CVE-2024-2886, CVE-2024-2887, CVE-2024-3159, CVE-2024-4671, CVE-2024-4761, CVE-2024-4947, CVE-2024-5274, google chrome, Type Confusion, Zero-Day

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 […]

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Google fixes ninth Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 geekfeed0Tagged Actively Exploited, CVE-2024-0519, CVE-2024-2886, CVE-2024-2887, CVE-2024-3159, CVE-2024-4671, CVE-2024-4761, CVE-2024-4947, CVE-2024-5274, google chrome, Type Confusion, Zero-Day

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 […]

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