Re: Getting security updates out to users sooner

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:31 pm, John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Most likely, multi-platform. There have been a few so big the NSA stepped in
and started warning people they needed to update.

These are both use-after-free vulnerabilities. The vulnerability is probably cross-platform, but exploits are necessarily platform- and architecture-specific. It can take weeks of effort to develop an exploit. Fixing the issue in a timely manner is sufficient.

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