Technology @lemmy.world Jannis @feddit.de 1 yr. ago

Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability

siliconangle.com Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability - SiliconANGLE

Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability - SiliconANGLE

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Can't comment on the rest but Firefox has already released a patch in their update.
- The article states that chrome released a patch on Monday and others are following.
- Why in the hell is Nobara still on v114? Anyone know?
  
  Fellow Nobara user and man of culture, I see
  
  Because it's a hobby distro and that's the kind of end result you should expect from those.
  
  GE probably didn't had the time to update or simply forgot, might be a good idea to ask on the Nobara channel in his Discord server
oh no, guess we need to get rid of webp forever. Dang it.
- Hope that trash google takes itself out .
  
  May I Ask why people don't like webp? I don't know the reason? To my eyes now it is a more ecological way of having pictures because of their lower weight?
I'd just say Chromium browsers and Firefox instead of 'other browsers'. Either way Firefox already put out a security fix so that's neat.
- FF = God
- WebKit based browser users: There are dozens of us!
  
  In Windows/Linux perhaps. There are far too few options. But combined, there are a lot of iPhones, iPads and Macs…
Is it time for us to switch to JPEGXL
- Chrome removed support for it because they didn't invent it.
  
  In Google's defense, they're plenty willing to remove support for things they did invent!
  
  Except they did invent it. They were on the development panel.
  
  https://killedbygoogle.com/
- Not like it would be any more secure.
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.
- Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.
  
  And also a lot of things that remain unpatched for years
GoogLe
- BoogLe
Welp, time to update my browser after months.
Webp is literally AIDS.

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