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Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability (siliconangle.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] skullvalanche 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just came here to say that this also affects any applications that use the libwebp library.

That includes many apps that most people don't think of as "browsers".

Electron based applications all use chromium under the hood, and are quite common/prolific these days.

https://www.electronjs.org/apps

Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.

And also a lot of things that remain unpatched for years