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> To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I'd expe
by aorth 3y ago
> To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I'd expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.
Interesting quote from Ben Hawkes (former Project Zero manager) in the article. I regularly compile Signal-Android from source and happened to notice they vendored libwebp a few days ago:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/a7d9fd19d9269201a276fbbff683355f1287efb1 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/a7d9fd19d...