The most serious flaw in the monthly security update affects the Android system and could be exploited to achieve local escalation of privilege, the company said.
The besieged security vendor maintains the latest exploited vulnerabilities in its products are entirely linked to unspecified security issues in open-source libraries. Some researchers aren’t buying it.
Serbian security services exploited one of the actively exploited vulnerabilities to break into the phone of a youth activist in Serbia, according to Amnesty International.
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Trend Micro researchers discovered and reported the eight-year-old defect to Microsoft six months ago. The company hasn’t made any commitments to patch or remediate the issue.
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