A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla (update: Mozilla has now

This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the “zero-click” iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 year ago

      Is this really the fault of the format or the fact that it just isn’t that much well supported?

          • @EldritchEnglish
            7•1 year ago

            Yep webp offers thousands to millions more colors compared to gif’s 256. Full alpha support. Not the 1bit alpha of gif. And is exponentially smaller file size for the same resolution and time.