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Google disclosed Microsoft Edge security flaw before it’s fixed

February 26, 2018

Via: CSO

Google seems to be gunning for Microsoft again by going public with a vulnerability in Microsoft Edge before Microsoft could develop a patch.The flaw affects Microsoft’s Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) which Microsoft described a year ago in a post about major security improvements released in the Creators Update of Windows 10.

To mitigate arbitrary native code execution in Edge, the Creators Update would use “Code Integrity Guard (CIG) and Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) to help break the most universal primitive found in modern web browser exploits: loading malicious code into memory.”

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