Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild.

CVE-2024-7971 is a high-severity vulnerability caused by a type confusion weakness in V8, the open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine developed by Google for the Chromium and Google Chrome web browsers.

What You Should Do
Google has fixed CVE-2024-7971 and delivered 37 additional security fixes in Chrome v128.0.6613.84/.85 (for Windows and Mac) and v128.0.6613.84 (Linux).  Users are advised to upgrade their Chrome installation if they don’t have the automatic updating option switched on.

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