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Exploit for Second Unpatched Chromium Flaw Made Public Just After First Is Patched

Issued by: Security Week

The second exploit was publicly disclosed by a researcher who uses the online moniker Frust and who works for Chinese cybersecurity company Qihoo 360. Frust announced the availability of an exploit for a “zero-day” Chrome vulnerability on Twitter on Wednesday, and a few hours later published a blog post with a technical description of the…

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Critical Firefox Vulnerability Can Allow Code Execution If Chained With Other Bugs

Issued by: Security Week

In its advisory for the vulnerability — the bug currently does not have a CVE identifier — Mozilla described it as a “buffer overflow in depth pitch calculations for compressed textures.” The issue, reported by researchers Abraruddin Khan and Omair through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), apparently only impacts Firefox running on Windows —…