Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability

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.
- Why in the hell is Nobara still on v114? Anyone know?
  
  Fellow Nobara user and man of culture, I see
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?
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!
  
  https://killedbygoogle.com/
- Not like it would be any more secure.
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
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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