http://news.com.com/Image+flaw+pierces+PC+...ml?tag=nefd.top
The security issues appear in a library supporting the portable network graphics (PNG) format, used widely by programs such as the Mozilla and Opera browsers and various e-mail clients. The most critical issue, a memory problem known as a buffer overflow, could allow specially created PNG graphics to execute a malicious program when the application loads the image.
They already got that fixed :doctor:
Originally posted by ZiUL@Aug 6 2004, 09:53 PMThey already got that fixed :doctor:
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...hope so ! 
Great, another excuse for MS not to implement PNGs properly in IE >
Originally posted by Mahalis@Aug 6 2004, 05:35 PMGreat, another excuse for MS not to implement PNGs properly in IE ><
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It's a problem in libpng, an open source PNG library. It's not a problem with the PNG format itself. MS would probably write their own PNG library anyway.
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