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Billons of Chrome users at risk from hacker attacks — severe flaw exploited

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Google is in the process of rolling out patches that address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser. According to Google, this flaw has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-7971) is a confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine (h/t to The Hacker News). Google acknowledged the flaw in a blog post saying that the company is “aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-7971 exists in the wild.”

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