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Today we have a blogpost about a bug that led to RCE in ChakraCore that almost made it to its first birthday from the time I found it. The reason I never reported it is that Chakra did not get a new release for a long time and this bug was therefore never released as part of Edge. As I am independent, I could either…

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Better slow than sorry – VirtualBox 3D acceleration considered harmful

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The 3 - d acceleration feature of VirtualBox has had a bit of a rough time this year . One could argue that technically this component might not be considered attack surface in VirtualBox, due to the big warning put out in the documentation recommending against its use (emphasis mine):