Google fixes the fourth Chrome zero-day in 2022

Google addressed a high-severity zero-day Chrome vulnerability actively exploited in the wild, it is the fourth zero-day patched in 2022.

Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows to fix a high-severity zero-day Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-2294, which is actively exploited in the wild.

The flaw is a heap buffer overflow that resides in the Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) component, it is the fourth zero-day patched by the IT giant in 2022.

“Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-2294 exists in the wild.,” reads the advisory published by Google.

Google hasn’t shared technical details of the attacks that exploited the vulnerability in the wild and have yet to attribute it to a particular threat actor.

The vulnerability was reported by Jan Vojtesek from the Avast Threat Intelligence team on 2022-07-01.

“Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.” Google added.

The other Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities addressed by Google this year are:

CVE-2022-1364 (April 14) – type confusion issue that resides in the V8 JavaScript engine
CVE-2022-1096 – (March 25) – type Confusion in V8 JavaScript engine
CVE-2022-0609 – (February 14) – use after free issue that resides in the Animation component.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.