V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences.

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is built on the JavaScript engine that Chrome uses, V8. One of the main updates in this release is that the V8 engine was updated to version 11.8.

For now, Google has only said CVE-2023-3079 pertains to a “type confusion” vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine for Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, which would include Microsoft ...

The Node.js team has released Node.js 19, which updates the V8 JavaScript engine to version 10.7 and enables HTTP (s)/1.1 KeepAlive by default. Version 10.7 of the V8 JavaScript engine adds to the ...

The Node.js team has recently released Node.js 21. This release introduces changes such as updates to the V8 JavaScript engine, stable fetch and WebStreams modules, an experimental flag for altering m ...

The truth is that as CVE-2023-3079 is actually a type confusion vulnerability in the JavaScript V8 engine of Chromium, and multiple other browsers alongside Chrome itself as Chromium-based, then ...

Google's research team has launched v8CTF, a capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge focused on its Chrome browser’s V8 JavaScript engine. The competition opened on October 6, 2023, and is accessible to any ...

This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js and other native add-on modules written for V8,” Seth said.

The CVE-2023-2033 vulnerability is considered high-severity and is detailed as a “confusion weakness in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine.” However, Google has shared few other details about the ...

The high-severity zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-4947) is caused by a type confusion weakness in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine reported by Kaspersky's Vasily Berdnikov and Boris Larin—who ...

All four vulnerabilities are categorized as “high risk” by Google. The type confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript engine was included twice this week (CVE-2024-7969, CVE-2024-8194).