Tag: brotli vulnerability

Brotli Defect Exposes Vast Internet Risk

A critical defect, CVE-2026-111497, has been uncovered in Google's Brotli decompression library, posing a significant risk of system crashes and remote code execution. This newly discovered buffer overflow vulnerability has sparked a flurry of activity, with major players like Node.js, Microsoft, and Python scrambling to issue patches and advisories.