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Apple and Google Just Patched Their First Zero-Day Flaws of the Year


Plus: Google fixes dozens of Android bugs, Microsoft rolls out nearly 50 patches, Mozilla squashes 15 Firefox flaws, and more.

Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday squashes nearly 50 bugs in its popular software, including 12 remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Five of the bugs are rated as having a high severity, including CVE-2024-0741, an out-of-bounds write issue in Angle that could allow an attacker to corrupt memory, leading to an exploitable crash. Tracked as CVE-2024-20253 and with a whopping CVSS score of 9.9, Cisco said an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a crafted message to a listening port of an affected device.

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