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You would need a document whitelist since many programs can be hijacked using buffer overflow attacks or outright support execution of arbritrary scripts.
by josefx 7y ago
You would need a document whitelist since many programs can be hijacked using buffer overflow attacks or outright support execution of arbritrary scripts.
- throwamay1241 7y agoOr we could, you know, just stop using Microsoft Office and Adobe products which are a huge, if not the biggest culprit of that kind of crazy behaviour.
- throwamay1241 7y agoI'll also point out that defending against buffer overflows which are considered vulnerabilities is a far saner boundary than a blacklist of files which grows infinitely.