Suggestions

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Fri Feb 24 13:25:03 UTC 2006


On 24/2/06 03:31, "sdfas sadffa" <david.englund at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  
>  
> freebsd.org is using .ico as icon.
> 
> Security considerations :
> This file format can only contain one or more images. The file format
> itself may contain malformed headers (especially the image-offset pointer)
> which may cause unexpected problems in poorly written software.

I don't get it - ours doesn't contain malformed headers (to my knowledge),
so I'm not 100% sure what the motivation would be.

If the format is encumbered, on the other hand, then I'd understand.  If it
actually works, of course :)

Ceri
-- 
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                                      -- Moliere






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