NVD - CVE-2023-4863
nvd.nist.gov

Any Chromium and Firefox browser prior to version 116 will be vulnerable to this, update your browsers.

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366551978/Browser-companies-patch-critical-zero-day-vulnerability

      Citizen Lab said Blastpass was discovered on the device of an employee with “a Washington DC-based civil society organization” and that it could be mitigated by Apple’s Lockdown Mode. An investigation into the exploit chain continues, but researchers said it involved “PassKit attachments containing malicious images sent from an attacker iMessage account to the victim.”

      Edit:

      Fuck my reading skill (or fuck articles listing multiple high profile CVEs)…
      Blastpass is not the same libwebp CVE (blastpass, the iMessage thing, is CVE-2023-41064. libwebp is CVE-2023-4863 - although that is the chrome one, despite this affecting libwebp not chrome).

      I think the whole situation is very rapidly being researched and it’s all developing.
      So, no idea if lockdown mode would have any effect

        • towerful@programming.devEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          Nah, this bullshit is progress.
          The root of this problem has always existed. Exploits have always been there, mistakes have always been there. These things are fundamentally unavoidable.
          Acknowledging then, documenting them is new. Sensible disclosure is new. Companies paying for these bug bounties before they are publicly disclosed (so they can be fixed) is new.
          And it’s awesome. It’s security. It’s people working together for the betterment of everyone.

          It would be amazing if people didn’t make mistakes. But that isn’t possible.
          Openess, honesty and quickly remedying of issues is possible, and it’s laudable.

          So yeh, next time you get an annoying update that interrupts you’re workflow. Please understand the work and reason behind the update. You can still be pissed at the interruption, but please appreciate the human reason for it.

          Edit: I read “good” as “god”. Idk if that changes anything