Apple rolls out emergency patch for gaping security hole in Macs, Watches

Apple has patched a major zero-day vulnerability being used in the wild against Mac devices and Apple Watches, the company has confirmed.

As reported by BleepingComputer, an unidentified cybersecurity researcher notified Apple of an out-of-bounds write issue in the AppleAVD (audio and video decoding kernel extension), which was abused by threat actors to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.