Update Google Chrome Browser to Patch New Zero-Day Exploit Detected in the Wild

Google on Friday released out-of-band updates to resolve an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser, making it the first such bug to be addressed since the start of the year. Tracked as CVE-2023-2033, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a type confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been

Nearly 20% of the zero-day flaws that attackers exploited in 2022 were in network, security, and IT management products, Mandiant says.

As many as 55 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild in 2022, with most of the flaws discovered in software from Microsoft, Google, and Apple. While this figure represents a decrease from the year before, when a staggering 81 zero-days were weaponized, it still represents a significant uptick in recent years of threat actors leveraging unknown security flaws to their advantage. The

A logic issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6. A user may be able to view restricted content from the lock screen.

An issue was discovered in the rollback feature of Elastic Endpoint Security for Windows, which could allow unprivileged users to elevate their privileges to those of the LocalSystem account.

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November 29, 2022. Type confusion

Google on Thursday released software updates to address yet another zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. Tracked as CVE-2022-4135, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap buffer overflow in the GPU component. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the flaw on November 22, 2022. Heap-based buffer overflow bugs can be

Google on Thursday rolled out emergency fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3723, has been described as a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine. Security researchers Jan Vojtěšek, Milánek, and Przemek Gmerek of Avast have been credited with reporting the flaw on October 25, 2022. "Google is aware of

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News The Google Chrome Team recently issued a fix for the CVE-2022-3075 zero-day. (Read more...) The post Zero-day puts a dent in Chrome's mojo appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Google on Friday shipped emergency fixes to address a security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-3075, concerns a case of insufficient data validating in Mojo, which refers to a collection of runtime libraries that provide a platform-agnostic mechanism for inter-process communication (IPC). An

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202208-39 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebkitGTK+, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. Versions less than 2.36.7 are affected.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added 10 new actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, including a high-severity security flaw affecting industrial automation software from Delta Electronics. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-38406 (CVSS score: 7.8), impacts DOPSoft 2 versions 2.00.07 and prior. A successful

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202208-35 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and its derivatives, the worst of which could result in remote code execution. Versions less than 104.0.5112.101 are affected.

An insufficient validation input flaw, one of 11 patched in an update this week, could allow for arbitrary code execution and is under active attack.

The high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2022-2856) is due to improper user-input validation.

Google on Tuesday rolled out patches for Chrome browser for desktops to contain an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-2856, the issue has been described as a case of insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents. Security researchers Ashley Shen and Christian Resell of Google Threat Analysis Group have been credited with reporting the flaw on

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202208-25 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and its derivatives, the worst of which could result in remote code execution. Versions less than 5.15.5_p20220618>= are affected.

Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 103.0.5060.114 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Type confusion in V8 Turbofan in Google Chrome prior to 100.0.4896.127 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Hello everyone! Microsoft has been acting weird lately. I mean the recent publication of a propaganda report about evil Russians and how Microsoft is involved in the conflict between countries. It wouldn’t be unusual for a US government agency, NSA or CIA to publish such a report. But when a global IT vendor, which, in […]

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.84 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Candiru attackers breached a news agency employee website to target journalists with DevilsTongue spyware, researchers say.

Apple Security Advisory Safari - Safari 15.6 addresses code execution and out of bounds write vulnerabilities.

Apple Security Advisory 2022-07-20-2 - macOS Monterey 12.5 addresses bypass, code execution, information leakage, null pointer, out of bounds read, out of bounds write, and spoofing vulnerabilities.

Apple Security Advisory 2022-07-20-1 - iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, information leakage, null pointer, out of bounds read, out of bounds write, and spoofing vulnerabilities.

By Deeba Ahmed The spyware vendor Candiru used the Chrome zero-day in March 2022 to target journalists and other unsuspected victims… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israeli Spyware Vendor Uses Chrome 0day to Target Journalists

The actively exploited but now-fixed Google Chrome zero-day flaw that came to light earlier this month was weaponized by an Israeli spyware company and used in attacks targeting journalists in the Middle East. Czech cybersecurity firm Avast linked the exploitation to Candiru (aka Saito Tech), which has a history of leveraging previously unknown flaws to deploy a Windows malware dubbed

Apple on Wednesday rolled out software fixes for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS to address a number of security flaws affecting its platforms. This includes at least 37 flaws spanning different components in iOS and macOS that range from privilege escalation to arbitrary code execution and from information disclosure to denial-of-service (DoS). Chief among them is

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the pros and cons of the way we publicize our threat research. I had a few conversations at Cisco Live with people — who are more generally IT-focused than... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

As a result of browser market consolidation, adversaries can focus on uncovering vulnerabilities in just two main browser engines.

The heap buffer-overflow issue in Chrome for Android could be used for DoS, code execution, and more.

Google has patched a vulnerability in Chrome which was being exploited in the wild. Make sure you're using the latest version. The post Update now! Chrome patches ANOTHER zero-day vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The heap buffer overflow issue in the browser’s WebRTC engine could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

In this post, we break down 5 times hackers used security vulnerabilities in 2021 to attack governments and businesses. The post Security vulnerabilities: 5 times that organizations got hacked appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Chrome suffers from having an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-1096.

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2022. Sorry for the delay, this month has been quite intense. As usual, I’m using my Vulristics project and going through not only the vulnerabilities that were presented on May 10th, but all the MS vulnerabilities presented by Microsoft since the previous Patch […]

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the latest updates to my open source vulnerability prioritization project Vulristics. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239088 CVSS redefinitions A fairly common problem: we have a CVE without an available CVSS vector and score. For example, this was the case with CVE-2022-1364 Type Confusion in […]