On Wed 02 Oct 2019 at 12:47:13 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 05:55:32PM +0200, ??tienne Mollier wrote: > > > I don't believe MP3 allows executable code by specifications > > either, so shouldn't the PNG image format. But think of DSA > > 4435 which affected libpng earlier this year. When the OS > > library for handling multimedia has flaws, if an HTML email > > embeds a specifically crafted PNG image inlined in the content, > > then you wouldn't even have to hit the ???preview??? button to be > > screwed: > > That would logically apply to ASCII text as well.
I'm not sure why an ASCII email would be handed to a multimedia library. Cheers, David.
