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UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED (nvd.nist.gov)
submitted 1 year ago by VitabytesDev@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is way way wider than just browsers. Anything that can display webp images is vulnerable and that includes things like MS Teams and Twitch.

[–] Lantern@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Further solidifying webp as the worst image format.

[–] chameleon@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The current advisory is in webm (VP8 specifically). The webp one was 2 weeks ago. ...yeah, not a good time for web browsers lately...

(edit: noticed OP actually did link the webp one, I thought it'd be CVE-2023-5217 because that's being linked elsewhere)

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

WebP is currently the smallest and highest quality format accepted by browsers today. I have no idea why you think so negatively of it, but it's irreplaceable until something better is widely adopted, and thus viable.

It's the best format for websites as of this exact moment.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Highest compression, not highest quality (arguably).

Also heavy compression which takes more resources to display.

Also poor compatibility outside browsers.

afaik it's basically still just VP8 in image format with added metadata, and google refuses to support alternatives because they like to own the browser market.

I think there was gonna be a webp and webm 2, but it never happened.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The only reason that’s the case is because Google axed the JPEGXL implementation

[–] Espi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

AVIF is supported everywhere and it's fantastic

[–] synceDD@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

? I dont like it because I'm uneducated so it's bad, average voter

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's the full disclosure of the ImageIO webp vuln from last week, this is the root cause.