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12 hours agoData Leakage Vulnerability Patched in OpenSSL
Seven vulnerabilities in OpenSSL have been patched, including a moderate severity flaw that can lead to sensitive data leakage.
The first vulnerability, CVE-2026-4673, is a heap buffer overflow issue in WebAudio that earned the reporting researcher a $7,000 bug bounty reward. Google has yet to determine the bounty amount for CVE-2026-4677, another bug reported by the same researcher.
CVE-2026-3909 is an out-of-bounds write flaw in Skia, the graphics library Chrome uses to render web content and parts of its user interface. Memory corruption bugs like this can sometimes be abused by attackers to crash applications or run their own code if successfully exploited.
Gene Moody, field CTO at Action1, explained that, in this vulnerability, a browser frees an object, but later continues to use the stale reference memory location. Any attacker who can shape heap layout with controlled content can potentially replace the contents of that freed memory with data they control. Because this lives in the renderer, and is reachable through normal page content, he said, the trigger surface is almost absolute.