Re: Serious bug in PIL's handling of PNG images

"Joao S. O. Bueno" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.image
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Oliver Tonnhofer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 17.02.2011, at 13:39, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
>>> It's questionable if this is a serious bug. It's more a missing feature (read alpha from paletted images).
>>
>> Since the alpha in paletted PNG images is in the PNG specification,
>> and PIL does support alpha I am quite certain this can be named a
>> bug. And a severe misfeature.
>
> But by far not a serious one. Or how do you call bugs that crash your system then?

Indeed, when reading teh subject here, I  could not help thinking of a
crafted PNG to run arbitrary Python code.  :-)

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