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Apple rolls out emergency patch for gaping security hole in Macs, Watches

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Security vulnerability in Apple Macs is being actively exploited in the wild.
Apple has patched a major zero-day vulnerability being used in the wild against Mac devices and Apple Watches, the company has confirmed. As reported by BleepingComputer, an unidentified cybersecurity researcher notified Apple of an out-of-bounds write issue in the AppleAVD (audio and video decoding kernel extension), which was abused by threat actors to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The flaw (tracked as CVE-2022-22675) was fixed in three separate operating systems – macOS Big Sur 11.

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