A specially crafted networking package or file can cause a vulnerable application to get confused enough to interpret input meant to represent data as binary co

A specially crafted networking package or file can cause a vulnerable application to get confused enough to interpret input meant to represent data as binary code to be executed. If you have an application that doesn't interact with any inputs, yes, you can avoid a lot of exploits. If the vulnerable application runs in a server, you might be temporarily safe in your local machine, until that server starts being used as a delivery mechanism against all its clients.