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by heipei 1474 days ago
The problem with libraries is that they often contain so much functionality while you yourself might only need a single thing (and don't even realise all the stuff the library is able to do). Whenever I had to patch systems due to some vulnerability my first thought was "Wait, why the hell is a <xxx> library even able to do that?"
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The log4j2 vulnerability is probably a good example of this. How many systems running log4j2 actually uses the JNDI functionality that led to the exploit?