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Chrome 0day in the Wild – Security Byte

March 12, 2019 By Corey Nachreiner

Last week, the Chrome team warned that attackers were exploiting a zero day vulnerability in the popular browser in the wild. At a high level, Chrome’s FileReader suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability that attackers could exploit to escape Chrome’s sandbox and execute code. The criminals exploiting the flaw are also leveraging a Windows vulnerability as well. Watch the video below for more information about this issue, and make sure Chrome is up to date.


Episode Runtime: 1:31

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDyTsyfh8Rw

EPISODE REFERENCES:

  • Google warns of Chrome 0day – ZDNet
  • Wild Chrome exploit also associated with a oday Windows flaw – ZDNet
  • Blog post about the Chrome update – Google Blog
  • Our written blog post on these new vulnerabilities – Secplicity

—Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

Chrome 0day in the Wild – Security Byte

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