Comment by sylware

Well, with all the enshitified complex file formats out there, I bet this is a "piece of cake" (for the people of the field with good tooling) to find exploits in the state management of code dealing with them. And very high computer languages/specialized script languages won't protect anything as those are "logic errors". I think "closing" state machines on such complex file formats is just pointless, better design new file formats from the ground up, but this time with a much stronger focus on robustness (keep that state machine as small and simple as possible and super rigorously well defined, and I mean like maths maniacs). And it is hard: because the purpose of the file format must come AFTER the robustness, namely tough compromise on the purpose itself may have to be done.