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Security risks are similar to other media content and may include buffer overruns and uninitialized data usage as part of the demuxing and decoding process [cve.mitre.org-libwebp] [crbug-security].¶

The format is defined using little-endian byte ordering (see Section 3.1 of [RFC2781]), but demuxing and decoding are possible on platforms using a different ordering with the appropriate conversion. The container is RIFF-based and allows extension via user defined chunks, but nothing beyond the chunks defined by the container format [webp-riff] are required for decoding of the image.¶

IANA has updated the "Image Media Types" registry to include 'image/webp' as described in Section 2.¶