Firefox and Tor hit with 9.8 critical level exploit

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Firefox was recently hit by CVE-2024-9680, a critical level use-after-free vulnerability, also impacting browsers like Tor and Zen . Learn how use-after-free exploits can have a major impact in real-world code.

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Firefox Exploit Details https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9680
Arc Browser Hack https://youtu.be/QINoB1_OXUk
Browser War of 2024 https://youtu.be/p572p-irRaU
Adblocker blockers https://youtu.be/QQu1_bf1Bdo

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🔖 Topics Covered

How did Firefox get hacked
Zero-day exploits affecting Firefox and Tor
Google Chrome blocking uBlock Origin and AdBlockers
Chrome manifest v3 changes
use-after-free code example in C
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