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UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED (nvd.nist.gov)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Any Chromium and Firefox browser prior to version 116 will be vulnerable to this, update your browsers.

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[–] GamingChairModel 16 points 1 year ago

Sorta. OP just linked the full disclosure of the libwebp vulnerability that made the news 2 weeks ago.

But there's an even more recent vulnerability in libvpx that was announced this week, that is similar in a lot of ways (including severity).