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Re:Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild by saidajigumi on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:08PM (#20224561)
if an attacker is porting the attack to Macs (presumably a lot of work)

It's worth noting that a professional security and pentest company I know of had a Python-based exploit authoring DSL that automatically generated exploit code across a very wide range of processor architectures and OSes. This was about fifteen years ago.

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Re:Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild by stcredzero on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:41PM (#20224859)
It's worth noting that a professional security and pentest company I know of had a Python-based exploit authoring DSL that automatically generated exploit code across a very wide range of processor architectures and OSes.

Makes sense. If entire OSes can be written in an intermediate representation, then exploits can be as well.

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Re:Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild by kseifried on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:07AM (#20229777)
You mean Core Impact? =).
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Re:Mozilla patches Firefox zero-day abused in the wild by saidajigumi on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:42PM (#20238125)
dingdingdingdingding!
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