>But overall it reads more like a "what if" thought experiment.
I remember the days when people said opening files like images was safe because it's not an executable. Then people got clever and started exploiting said image libraries with things like numerical overflows.
So, it's really important to ask these questions in a general security sense and think of mitigations before someone finds it's possible and crashes most of the internet.
I remember the days when people said opening files like images was safe because it's not an executable. Then people got clever and started exploiting said image libraries with things like numerical overflows.
So, it's really important to ask these questions in a general security sense and think of mitigations before someone finds it's possible and crashes most of the internet.