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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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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I'm aware this does affect Android and is not currently fixed. It's expected to be fixed in the October security patch.

This is just my memory of reading weeks ago. Someone else may know better.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Android webview is updated through the play store as of a few years ago

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I believe the libwebp is implemented at the OS level. Again someone else may know better.

[–] TakingOnWater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So if the phone gets a security update for this at the OS level, should we theoretically be safe to use apps with any sort of browser functionality? Like some apps that don't update, or are no longer being maintained, etc