Security News > 2016 > November > Microsoft Silently Fixes Kernel Bug That Led to Chrome Sandbox Bypass (Threatpost)
2016-11-30 21:10
Microsoft appears to have silently fixed a two-year-old bug in in Windows Kernel Object Manager that could have allowed for the bypass of privileges in Google's Chrome browser.
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http://threatpost.com/microsoft-silently-fixes-kernel-bug-that-led-to-chrome-sandbox-bypass/122179/
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