{"id":22588,"date":"2025-04-13T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:23:03","slug":"cve-2024-0517-critical-heap-corruption-vulnerability-in-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-0517-critical-heap-corruption-vulnerability-in-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2024-0517: Critical Heap Corruption Vulnerability in Google Chrome<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world of cybersecurity has once again been stirred by the discovery of a new vulnerability, CVE-2024-0517, affecting Google Chrome. This vulnerability presents a significant threat to users due to its severity and the widespread usage of Google Chrome, making it a potential target for cybercriminals. The vulnerability resides in V8, Google&#8217;s open-source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, and could potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-0572-critical-vulnerability-in-totolink-lr1200gb-leading-to-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"28977\">lead to system<\/a> compromise and data leakage. As such, it is of utmost importance for users and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-2945-unveiling-the-system-access-vulnerability-in-network-security-protocols\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"26704\">system administrators to understand the vulnerability<\/a> and apply appropriate mitigations promptly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2024-0517<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.8 CVSS Severity Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Remote<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-0573-critical-vulnerability-in-totolink-lr1200gb-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"29035\">Potential system<\/a> compromise and data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1712047461\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-3619-critical-heap-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-google-chrome-codecs\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"40064\">Google Chrome<\/a> | Prior to 120.0.6099.224<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds write issue that exists in the V8 engine of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-2073-out-of-bounds-read-vulnerability-in-google-chromeos-kernel\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"39985\">Google<\/a> Chrome. An attacker can craft a malicious HTML page that triggers a heap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-42866-critical-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-apples-webkit-engine\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"26165\">corruption in the V8 engine<\/a> when processed. Heap corruption, a form of undefined behavior, can lead to program crashes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-0252-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability-in-manageengine-adselfservice-plus\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"26274\">execution of arbitrary code<\/a>, or even full control over a system. In this case, it could allow a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-49589-the-critical-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-targeting-web-based-applications\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"26029\">remote attacker to execute arbitrary code<\/a> in the context of the browser, thereby leading to potential system compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2198648395\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>A conceptual example of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/fortinet-s-fortigate-vulnerability-ssl-vpn-symlink-exploit-puts-user-access-at-risk-post-patching\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"33389\">vulnerability might be exploited<\/a> is shown below. The attacker would craft a malicious HTML page incorporating JavaScript that triggers the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-37294-heap-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-ami-s-spx\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"33388\">heap corruption<\/a>. Note that this is a simplified representation and actual exploit code would be more complex.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;\n&lt;html&gt;\n&lt;body&gt;\n&lt;script&gt;\n\/\/ Malicious JavaScript code that causes heap corruption in V8\nlet arr = new Array(1);\narr.length = 4294967295;\narr.fill(&#039;CVE-2024-0517 exploit code&#039;);\n&lt;\/script&gt;\n&lt;\/body&gt;\n&lt;\/html&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-24297-high-risk-javascript-code-injection-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"35827\">JavaScript code<\/a> creates an array and sets its length to a very large number (2^32-1). The &#8216;fill&#8217; method is then used to fill the array with the exploit code, which triggers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-37295-critical-heap-memory-corruption-vulnerability-in-ami-s-spx\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"33392\">heap corruption<\/a> due to the way V8 handles large arrays. This code would be embedded in a webpage that the attacker entices the victim to visit, thereby causing the victim&#8217;s browser to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2023-6878-a-critical-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-exploited\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"26346\">execute the exploit code<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The world of cybersecurity has once again been stirred by the discovery of a new vulnerability, CVE-2024-0517, affecting Google Chrome. This vulnerability presents a significant threat to users due to its severity and the widespread usage of Google Chrome, making it a potential target for cybercriminals. The vulnerability resides in V8, Google&#8217;s open-source high-performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[91],"product":[],"attack_vector":[86],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-22588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","vendor-google","attack_vector-buffer-overflow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22588"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35385,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions\/35385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=22588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}