Re: Fwd: fix format security
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs |
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
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On 2026-08-24 11:25, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote: > translation files ought to be as > well protected as the binary itself Yes, of course. That's true even if you ignore formats. A malicious text translation can fool the user into doing harmful things. It can easily be worse than merely messing up format directives. I'd rather not complicate the code merely to pacify Clang here.