Why “Brotli” is being discussed
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It's not my intention to spew hate on Brotli every other day but I just stumbled upon this yesterday evening and couldn't resist claiming my 8-year-old CVE <<shrug emoji>>
by vanschelven · Oct 28, 2026
Brotli is bigger than node2shell, php2shell or an npm bug. Its copied into runtimes, databases, document readers, image libraries, language bindings, and native packages. (CVE-2…
by j12y · Oct 27, 2026
> Could have been a person. The commit is attributed to "eustas" (Eugene Kliuchnikov) on the Google GitHub repo, who is the primary contributor to the Brotli project by a wide m…
by zahlman · Oct 27, 2026
I've been refused to do cybersecurity (read-only investigative access against the recent brotli cve) with Opus 5.5 when I had full SSH access, so I guess you've got to have a fa…
by altcognito · Oct 26, 2026
Stratis is the only accepted blocker, it's a no go because it makes encrypted installs completely unbootable. I guess Brotli is already patched through a freeze exception.
by tancop · Oct 26, 2026
Seems like it's due to the recent brotli bugs. The other blocker is stratis, but to be honest I'm not sure if that is a no-go.
by SahAssar · Oct 26, 2026
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Brotli is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Jyrki Alakuijala and Zoltán Szabadka. It uses a combination of the general-purpose LZ77 lossless compression algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd-order context modelling. Brotli is primarily used by web servers and content delivery networks to compress HTTP content, making internet websites load faster. As successor to gzip, it is supported by all major web browsers and has become increasingly popular, as it provides better compression than gzip. Read more on Wikipedia