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 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 ...

the run-time will usually leave many in memory.” In addition to fixing the zero-day buffer overflow flaw, the Chrome releases also patch a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked ...

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 ...