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by Yeroc 1007 days ago
Unfortunately, the readme for image-rs indicates that webp support is provided via the libwebp C library!
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That's for the encoding part. The 0day we are talking about was in the webp decoder, and decoders generally are the riskier component compared to encoders. I'm not sure if Chrome ships with the webp encoder at all.
Only for encoding.