Jannis@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoChrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerabilitysiliconangle.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1337arrow-down13
arrow-up1334arrow-down1external-linkChrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerabilitysiliconangle.comJannis@feddit.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareSkullvalanche@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60·10 months agoJust 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.
minus-squareLaggyKar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·10 months ago Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future. And also a lot of things that remain unpatched for years
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.
And also a lot of things that remain unpatched for years