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Security in the 20-teens

Security in the 20-teens

Posted Feb 11, 2010 14:32 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Security in the 20-teens by renox
Parent article: Security in the 20-teens

For a security perspective, the PNG decoder shouldn't have access to network sockets..

The PNG decoder shouldn't be allowed to open new network sockets. However, a file descriptor open for reading is a file descriptor open for reading. It doesn't matter much whether there is a disk or a web server at the other end.


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