Comment 4 for bug 120829

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ingo (ingo-steiner) wrote :

Arnold,

in fact you are right - depending on conditions this can be a big security hole.
It also is contradicting to the Linux-philosophy 'do not touch foreign data unless the user tells you to do so'.
Moreover there seems to be no reaction on this issue.
Therefore I did change the description flag to 'also affects security#

Ingo