{"id":167631,"date":"2024-08-26T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/?p=167631"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:59:48","slug":"10th-google-chrome-zero-day-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/167631\/hacking\/10th-google-chrome-zero-day-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Google addressed the tenth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google released emergency security updates to fix the tenth actively exploited Chrome zero-day vulnerability this year.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google released a security update to address a new Chrome zero-day vulnerability, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2024-7965<\/a> (CVSS score 8.8), that is actively exploited.<\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vulnerability is an Inappropriate implementation\u00a0issue that resides in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2024-7971 and CVE-2024-7965 exist in the wild.” reads<\/a>\u00a0the 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><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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.”<\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The security researcher TheDog reported the flaw on 2024-07-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google addressed the vulnerability with the release of 128.0.6613.84\/.85 for Windows\/macOS and 128.0.6613.84 (Linux). The company will release versions for all users in the Stable Desktop channel over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bBelow is the list of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser that have been fixed this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n