\u200b\u200bGoogle released an emergency security update to address a Chrome zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7971, that is actively exploited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vulnerability is a type confusion issue that resides in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-7971 exists in the wild.” reads<\/a> the advisory published by the company that did not share details about the attacks exploiting the issue. “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\u2019t yet fixed.”.<\/em>
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(<\/strong>SecurityAffairs<\/strong><\/a> \u2013<\/strong> hacking, Google)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"