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New Chrome Zero-Day Actively Exploited; Google Issues Emergency Out-of-Band Patch (thehackernews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Aw shit, I hope I wasn't affec...wait, I use Firefox

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

"Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.68 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page,"

So, probably that means an attacker could take over your computer just by you visiting a website right?

[–] JamonBear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

What about electron? Afaik it also use V8