Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.
  • jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Directly probably not. Its more likely an implementation issue than a federation issue.

    “Using carefully crafted media files, attackers can cause Mastodon’s media processing code to create arbitrary files at any location"

    I doubt lemmy and mastodon share image parsing code

    • npmstart_pray@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I’d not be so confident given just how quickly the rollout happened. Remember, we’re talking only a matter of weeks. (I’m a little more comfortable with things especially with the frequency of updates this far - I’ve installed 2 today)