Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2024
Google has released emergency security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, in the Chrome browser.
The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds write issue that resides in the V8 JavaScript engine of the Google web browser.
The company confirmed that the flaw is exploited in attacks in the wild.
“CVE-2024-4761: Out of bounds write in V8. Reported by Anonymous on 2024-05-09″ reads the advisory. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4761 exists in the wild.”
The company addressed the zero-day flaw with the release of 124.0.6367.207/.208 for Mac/Windows and 124.0.6367.207 for Linux. Google will roll out updates to all users over the coming days/weeks.
The vulnerability CVE-2024-4671 is the sixth zero-day exploited in attacks fixed by the IT giant this year.
As usual, Google did not publish details about the attacks exploiting the vulnerability.
“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” continues the advisory.
Below is the list of actively exploited zero-day flaws in the Chrome browser that have been fixed this year:
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