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Sarah Chaney

SHOCKING: An 18 year old browser exploit leaves macbooks and linux laptops vulnerable but a fix is coming - What They Never Told You

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Sometimes, we've seen big companies take up to a few months to fix a glaring bug, risk, or other issue within an OS or a browser, but usually, issues are fixed within days or weeks. However, a vulnerability recently brought up by Oligo Security has gone without a fix for much longer: 18 years.

It affects Chromium, Firefox, and Safari on laptops running macOS and Linux.

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