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That is not a fair comparison. An entire browser engine has way more surface area for attack than a JPEG decoder.
by babypuncher 4y ago
That is not a fair comparison. An entire browser engine has way more surface area for attack than a JPEG decoder.
- adrr 4y agoIt was just an example. What about a pdf editor/viewer like acrobat?
- babypuncher 4y agoStill far less attack surface area than a browser engine. Browsers can download and execute arbitrary code in the form of JavaScript or WASM. Your options for poking at the sandbox are far more plentiful when it is parsing and executing turing-complete instructions rather than a markup languages or other static data.