Shared compression bug exposes runtimes and cloud workloads to attack
Daily Cyber News: Shared compression bug exposes runtimes and cloud workloads to attack
A memory-corruption issue in the Brotli compression library reaches far beyond Node.js. Any application that decompresses attacker-controlled Brotli data with a vulnerable decoder may be exposed. That includes software built around dot net, Python clients, proxies and data platforms.
Key context: The challenge is that the same vulnerable component may be bundled into applications, containers and several runtime ecosystems.
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