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According to media reports, a dangerous zero-day vulnerability was discovered in both Chrome and Firefox browsers, with the tracking number CVE-2023-5217, which will cause a buffer overflow in the VP8 codec. There is already evidence that hackers are exploiting it. This vulnerability launches an attack.
The Google security team stated that the vulnerability exists in the WebM file format, which means that browsers including Chrome, Firefox, software such as Skype, VLC, and supporting software from AMD, Nvidia, and Logitech may have vulnerabilities.
Google has released Chrome 117.0.5938.132 update, and Mozilla has released Firefox 118.0.1 update, which fixes the above vulnerability.
