Re: Serious bug in PIL's handling of PNG images
"Joao S. O. Bueno" <[email protected]>
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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. :-) js -><- _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig