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by mathisonturing 2447 days ago
You have to "install an application from an untrusted source, attackers can take advantage of that. Attackers can also take advantage of the bug if they pair it with vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser to render content."

I guess it informs us what not to do at the very least. Given the track record, I'm not very optimistic of the vendors pushing a patch very soon (if ever). This keeps us informed at least.

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Or the attacked surface has to be exposed to the browser sandbox, which apparently this one is, per: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=19...
> You have to "install an application from an untrusted source, attackers can take advantage of that. Attackers can also take advantage of the bug if they pair it with vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser to render content."

They can easily give that^ information without exposing details of the bug though?