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(Still) unwise to run compile untrusted gnuplots.

(Still) unwise to run compile untrusted gnuplots.

Posted Mar 14, 2012 13:41 UTC (Wed) by gmatht (guest, #58961)
Parent article: Gnuplot 4.6 released

While it is natural to think of plots of documents, I understand it is not safe to compile plots from untrusted sources, and there is no trivial and obviously correct way of filtering out dangerous plots while allowing normal plots. This limits the usefulness of gnuplot in document editors and wiki's. See e.g. http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-Proposal-for-a-new-...


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(Still) unwise to run compile untrusted gnuplots.

Posted Mar 15, 2012 17:56 UTC (Thu) by ssam (subscriber, #46587) [Link]

could you just use external sandboxing?
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html

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