Re: Fuzzing findings (and maybe CVE requests) - Image/GraphicsMagick, elfutils, GIMP, gdk-pixbuf, file, ndisasm, less

[Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>]

Am Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:48:39 +0100
schrieb Raphael Geissert <geissert () debian org>:

> > c) fuzz all the tools in there and report at least the
> > low-hanging-fruit-bugs? (and then maybe try to replace the
> > "they-don't-fix-bugs-or-don't-have-a-dev-any-more"-tools with more
> > secure ones)
>
> d) acknowledge the fact that most tools were not "designed for
> security" and that we should talk about mitigation. It's about risk
> analysis.

Fair point, however it doesn't exclude doing c) as well. (however it
was my understanding that all widely deployed memory corruption
mitigation methods are mostly incomplete and can usually be circumvented
by tricky enough exploits - but I'm no expert on this)

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