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UPDATE YOUR BROWSERS IMMEDIATELY. RCE VULNERABILITY DISCOVERED (nvd.nist.gov)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Apple also released urgent out-of-band security patches for iOS and MacOS around the same time, and disclosed that it had something to o do with imag processing. Unclear whether they use libwebp or some other implementation, but they disclosed that it was being actively exploited on iPhones.