CVE-2024-7971 is a high-severity type-confusion vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine in Google Chrome and Chromium versions earlier than 128.0.6613.84. A remote attacker can use crafted HTML and JavaScript/WebAssembly content to cause heap corruption. The issue was exploited in the wild, including activity attributed with medium confidence to the North Korea-linked Citrine Sleet actor.
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A V8 JavaScript-engine type-confusion vulnerability in the outdated Chromium/CEF browser component bundled with OBS Studio. When chained with XSS in an unsafe custom Twitch chat overlay, it can enable native code execution on a streamer's Windows PC.
Chromium-family browser vulnerability; technical details are not supplied.
Unknown (only referenced as a related post title; no vulnerability details provided in the content).
A Chromium remote code execution zero-day caused by a type confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engines, used to help deliver FudModule.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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