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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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[–] 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