Zero-day Vulnerability in Ubiquitous Lib Puts Millions at Risk

A high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in libwebp, fixed recently as a zero-day flaw on Google Chrome, has a much broader impact than initially thought. Libwebp is an open-source library that programs incorporate to gain the ability to encode and decode images in the WebP format, a modern lossless/lossy compression format used extensively in web …

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