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Comment by UncleOxidant

1 year ago

Can someone explain why HarfBuzz isn't a potentially serious security vulnerability? Couldn't someone create a .ttf file that looks like one of the standard .ttf files but includes similar capability to this llama.ttf to execute arbitrary code?

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UncleOxidant

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progbits  1 year ago

https://webassembly.org/docs/security/

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