Re: Fwd: [OpenPKG-SA-2004.035] OpenPKG Security Advisory (png)

"Matthias B." <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:07:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:16:02 +0100 Ian Molton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:05:44 -0600
> Archaic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Looks like it's much more that png that we need to worry about.
> 
> not me... the joys of dynamic linking - not one of my programs contains
> a static libpng (I just checked).

And even if you had lots of statically linked programs you would not
really be in trouble. Browser and mail client are usually the only apps
that get to see PNG images from untrusted sources.

MSB

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2+2=5, for moderately large values of two.

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