POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : libpng Security Vulnerabilities : Re: libpng Security Vulnerabilities Server Time
18 Jun 2024 07:41:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: libpng Security Vulnerabilities  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 5 Aug 2004 11:55:07
Message: <4112585b@news.povray.org>
In article <cetgc0$8po$1@chho.imagico.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> The whole thing isn't new, there have been similar problems with other
> support libraries before.  I really don't understand why people make so
> much fuzz about it.  If you had asked me a week ago to bet $1000 on
> libpng containing vulnerabilities or not the answer would have been
> completely clear.

It still is today.  I would still bet $1000 that more will be found in the
future.  I would actually hold that for absolutely every non-trivial
software out there.

    Thorsten

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e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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