New Chrome zero-day actively exploited, patch quickly! (CVE-2024-7971)

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 … appeared first on Help Net Security.