TikTok’s owner forked Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code and concerns have been raised — reports suggest it’s resource heavy and never stops ‘phoning home’

July 28, 2025

ByteDance, best known in the west for TikTok, has a new AI-infused code editor forked from Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Shockingly (or not) it seems it might well be phoning home quite a lot, even if you turn off telemetry.

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Highlights

CVE-2025-7550 – Tenda FH1201 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

July 13, 2025

CVE ID : CVE-2025-7550

Published : July 13, 2025, 11:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

Description : A vulnerability was found in Tenda FH1201 1.2.0.14(408). It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function fromGstDhcpSetSer of the file /goform/GstDhcpSetSer. The manipulation of the argument dips leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Severity: 8.8 | HIGH

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