Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug

To address a vulnerability in Google's Brotli compression technology that could allow attackers to corrupt process memory, Microsoft is urging .NET users to update "as soon as possible" after releasing an out-of-band (OOB) security update. It released new versions for .NET 8, 9, 10, and .NET 11 to patch against the Brotli bug, following similar updates from Node.js, Python, and other projects. Senior program manager Rahul Bhandari said in the October 25 release that the buffer overflow vulnerabi