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Re: HFS+ specific vulnerability



On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 17:39 +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Do we care about vulerabilities that are specific to HFS+?
> 
> http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0093/
> CVE-2016-2334

If a program automatically detects file formats then every supported
file format is part of its attack surface.  I don't think we can rule
out certain formats as too obscure.  (See for example the recent
attacks on ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick using a format that most people
never heard of before.  The fix there was to disable support for that
format by default.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names
taken.

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