1.0 Introduction
Recently, Google has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities including CVE-2024-7971 high severity vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild.
2.0 Impact
A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system and heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
3.0 Affected Products
- Type of confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior version 128.0.6613.84 in Windows, Mac and Linux.
4.0 Recommendations
CyberSecurity Malaysia encourages users and administrators to review Google Chrome’s releases for more information and apply the necessary updates.
Kindly refer to the following URLs for more information:
Generally, we advise the users to be updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor and follow best practice security policies to determine which updates should be applied.
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5.0 References
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html