Hans-Christoph Steiner on Nostr: The #WebP #security vulnerability CVE-2023-4863 demonstrates a huge advantage of the ...
The #WebP #security vulnerability CVE-2023-4863 demonstrates a huge advantage of the "distro" approach of shipping software, like #Debian pushes so hard to deliver. We see a mad scramble for many software vendors to ship with the patched version of #libwebp. In the distro model, the patch is shipped in the single lib package, then all of the software automatically uses the safe version. This leads to shorter times to get fixes to users with much less work overall.
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2023-09-26 07:18:21Event JSON
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