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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] About syslinux &amp; libpng</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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    <I>Fri Sep 30 14:00:20 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 29 September 2011 20:41, Erwan Velu &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">erwanaliasr1 at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> The point is syslinux is a bootloader that obviously don't share libs with
</I>&gt;<i> the rest of the system.
</I>&gt;<i> Considering that we can attack the bootloader via a picture means you
</I>&gt;<i> compromized the picture. If you can change the picture located at /boot,
</I>&gt;<i> means that you can compromize the booting parameters too.
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</I>&gt;<i> So if we take this road of removing bootloader's libs, shall we also remove
</I>&gt;<i> the jpeg/gz/gcc/... libs too, and maybe for other bootloaders too ?
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</I>&gt;<i> I do understand the need for the application that runs under linux... but
</I>&gt;<i> about the bootloaders...
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</I>&gt;<i> What's your thoughts about it ?
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Indeed you got a point...

&gt;<i> Would you agree on keep syslinux untouched regarding the png lib ?
</I>
I would revert my vote and go that way.
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