Google’s Project Zero discloses Windows 0day that’s been under active exploit

Author: Cantbekhan

Score: 27

Comments: 4

Date: 2020-10-31 00:26:55

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codys wrote at 2020-10-31 02:46:44:

On the same subject matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947247

juliend2 wrote at 2020-10-31 02:23:09:

The link goes to the comments section. This one doesn't:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/googl...

kerng wrote at 2020-10-31 02:53:40:

Seems like they conveniently waited to fix Chrome bug before going ballistic at Microsoft.

aw1621107 wrote at 2020-10-31 03:17:42:

Project Zero's disclosure policy as described in the article appears to leave little room, if any, for the bias you appear to be implying:

> In keeping with long-standing policy, Google’s vulnerability research group gave Microsoft a seven-day deadline to fix the security flaw because it’s under active exploit. Normally, Project Zero discloses vulnerabilities after 90 days or when a patch becomes available, whichever comes first.

In addition, the two bugs appear to be unrelated other than being used as part of the same attack chain. The Chrome/FreeType vulnerabilities were reported on 2020-10-19 [0, 1], while the Windows vulnerability was reported on 2020-10-22 [2]. The Chrome team released a fix for their bug the day after the it was reported [3], while Microsoft is either still working on fixing the bug or is waiting for Patch Tuesday.

[0]:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113996...

[1]:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59308

[2]:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=21...

[3]:

https://twitter.com/benhawkes/status/1318640422571266048