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Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
(arstechnica.com)
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Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday.
Two weeks ago, Apple reported that threat actors were actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in iOS so they could install espionage spyware known as Pegasus.
Apple said the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-41064, stemmed from a buffer overflow bug in ImageIO, a proprietary framework that allows applications to read and write most image file formats, which include one known as WebP.
Rather than Apple, Google, and Citizen Lab coordinating and accurately reporting the common origin of the vulnerability, they chose to use a separate CVE designation, the researchers said.
It is best practice for software products to track upstream libraries they depend on in order to pick up security fixes and improvements.”
The representative didn’t explain why the official CVE and Google’s disclosure did not mention the widely used libwebp library or the likelihood that other software was also likely to be vulnerable.
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