TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Back to Being a Luddite (Oh Well)

Re: Back to Being a Luddite (Oh Well)

sidd@situ.com
Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:01:03 GMT

In article <telecom25.255.8@telecom-digest.org>, mc
<look@www.ai.uga.edu.for.address> wrote:

> I don't think it does. Has anyone made measurements? Text files and
> graphics don't have to be checked, only executable code.

I believe there have been several overflows found in image processing
libraries (jpeg,pdf,tiff...) used by popular browsers and image
viewers.

I am also aware of atleast one entirely text based attack on a hole in
a java runtime engine.

sidd

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