[Moru]

"Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) Could Allow Code Execution (833987)" [0]

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBu...

[soheil]

It's bizarre to claim image viruses exist today when you link to a nearly 20 year old article about a buggy OS.

[Moru]

If it happened in the worlds most used client OS 20 years ago, it's clearly not impossible it can happen again. Not that much has happened with computers since then.

I remember being like you, believing no virus could come from an image or other data. I have been proven wrong enough times since then. We keep assuming things as programmers and sometimes we get it wrong and then there is a new wulnerability.

[pvillano]

there was a more recent case with image metadata parsing that, when the author tried to report it, the image also broke youtrack