Google (GOOG) Exposes Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Apple's (AAPL) OS X

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)(Nasdaq: GOOGL) has previously revealed vulnerabilities in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows operating system, but now the search giant has turned its attention to Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) OS X platform.

TheHackerNews said Friday that Google has exposed three "zero-day" vulnerabilities in OS X.

The flaws are:

-- "OS X networkd 'effective_audit_token' XPC type confusion sandbox escape"
-- "OS X IOKit kernel code execution due to NULL pointer dereference in IntelAccelerator"
-- "OS X IOKit kernel memory corruption due to bad bzero in IOBluetoothDevice"

Again, you can read more at TheHackerNews. Shares of Apple are lower ahead of the opening bell today.

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