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by tptacek 363 days ago
It would be better for everyone if everything on a forwardgoing basis was written in a memory-safe language.
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What difference does it make for a video editor or DAW?
iphones have already CVEs from memory safety issued in image formats. is entirely plausible that a similar issue could exist in video or audio codecs
The parser is attack surface, but that's the only part of something like Photoshop that has to be secure. The actual editing features can be insecure.