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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:50:24 +0200
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ghostscript: 1Policy operator gives access to
 .forceput CVE-2018-18284

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:57:22 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@...rmont.com> wrote:

> Again, given that PostScript is an archival format for a lot of
> documents, wouldn't a version of ghostscript with all the ability to
> do anything dangerous removed from the interpreter at compile time be
> rational?

I think nobody here will disagree with you that this would be good to
have.
The question is: Who's gonna do it? Will you?

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Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/

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