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<H1>[Mageia-dev] About syslinux & libpng</H1>
<B>Michael scherer</B>
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<I>Tue Oct 4 16:50:52 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:30:29AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
><i> On Monday, 3 October 2011 15:58:36 Michael Scherer wrote:
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</I>><i> > Except if I start to replace this by "here is a nice syslinux boot image
</I>><i> > with a duck". And then my code is run by syslinux, just because someone
</I>><i> > took my png picture.
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</I>><i> And the same person could say, "Here is my cool plymouth splash screen, use my
</I>><i> initrd", and there are 1000 easier ways to exploit this (than trying to
</I>><i> generate a PNG image with exploit code that someone would like enough to use
</I>><i> syslinux).
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Sure, but we can also upload the pics on some gnome-art or something like that.
Now, if we consider every possible exploit requires opening a document as a non
problem, I guess it would surely reduce our workload on security issue, and
for sure enhance the confidence.
And while I was not aware of it when I wrote my mail, it already happened :
MDKSA-2006:210
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Michael Scherer
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