Google reveals 3 Apple OS X Zero-day Vulnerabilities

Project Zero has yet again revealed three more zero-day vulnerabilities this time on OS X. The team has published three zero-day exploits for Apple’s OS X, with sufficient information for an experienced hacker to exploit the bugs in an attack. The details about the zero-days were released after alerting Apple to them. All three require physical access and cannot be exploited remotely.

Google reveals 3 Apple OS X Zero-day Vulnerabilities

Google's Project Zero is an initiative that identifies security holes in different software and calls on companies to publicly disclose and patch bugs within 90 days of discovering them. The company’s tight 90-days disclosure policy encourages all software vendors to patch their products before they could get exploited.

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