The vulnerability, according to Google, facilitates a so-called heap buffer overflow attack. Such attacks override parts of an application’s memory ... was in the V8 JavaScript engine while ...

V8, the JavaScript engine featured ... a new branch of the engine. “V8 5.4 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint and startup speed,” the team said in a bulletin.

This bug found in the open source JavaScript engine `` V8 '' developed by Google is called ` ` Type Confusion ' '. Typically, reading or writing memory beyond the bounds of a buffer crashes the ...

The beta V8 Version 7.4 is now available, with the potential to expand the engine’s footprint to platforms such as Apple iOS. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine for ...

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome ... sandbox proposal to help protect its memory from nastier bugs in the engine using virtual machine and sandboxing ...