Google patches 3rd Chrome browser zero-day inside of a week

Google on May 15 posted nine Chrome patches - one of them yet another zero-day - the third this week reported by the tech giant tech.
The patches coincide with Google's Chrome team announcing the release of Chrome 125 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
These updates will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
Security pros said the most important bug was the high-severity zero-day - CVE-2024-4947 - described by NIST as a type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.60 that allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.
Google said CVE-2024-4947 was reported by Vasily Berdnikov and Boris Larin of Kaspersky on May 13.
The company also noted that it's aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4947 exists in the wild.
Patrick Tiquet, vice president of security and architecture at Keeper Security, said that these high-security flaws are serious and teams should patch them immediately.

This Cyber News was published on packetstormsecurity.com. Publication date: Sat, 18 May 2024 08:43:05 +0000

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