Google on Monday shipped emergency fixes to address a new zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, is an out-of-bounds write bug impacting the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported anonymously on May 9, 2024.
Out-of-bounds write bugs could be typically exploited by malicious actors to corrupt data, or induce a crash or execute arbitrary code on compromised hosts.
The disclosure comes merely days after the company patched CVE-2024-4671, a use-after-free vulnerability in the Visuals component that has also been exploited in real-world attacks.
With the latest fix, Google has addressed a total of six zero-days since the start of the year, three of which were demonstrated at the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver in March –
Users are recommended to upgrade to Chrome version 124.0.6367.207/.208 for Windows and macOS, and version 124.0.6367.207 for Linux to mitigate potential threats.
Users of Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi are also advised to apply the fixes as and when they become available.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/
