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2023 Edition
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first published week of: 04/24/2023
Google Issues New Warning For 3 Billion Chrome Users
by Gordon Kelly
Chrome is now used by over three billion users worldwide, but following Google’s discovery of the browser’s first Zero Day exploit this year, everyone needs to update their browser as a matter of priority.
In a new blog post, Google confirmed the discovery of the Zero Day vulnerability and it impacts Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux. Google also confirmed it is aware that an exploit exists in the wild.
The vulnerability, CVE-2023-2033, stems from a “Type Confusion in V8.””This occurs when a program uses one method to allocate or initialize a resource, but an incompatible method then accesses that resource, potentially providing unsecured access to the browser’s memory.
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