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ESET said its researchers first found a use-after-free bug in the animation timeline feature in Firefox.

This bug was discovered on October 8, and was assigned CVE-2024-9680.

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It was fixed a day later, on October 9.

By chaining the two vulnerabilities together, the attackers were able to deploy backdoors on target devices.

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