[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC][PATCH] configure: Disable unsafe demuxers by default
Derek Buitenhuis
derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
Fri May 11 02:44:31 EEST 2018
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:36 AM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Experience shows that it's always the obscure features which cause
> security issues. Regarding the bloat: these small things add up a lot,
> and suddenly you have hundreds of demuxers. It's hard to filter them
> out manually, and why make each user do that? Many of these game formats
> in particular probably have something like under a dozen files in the
> universe that exist at all (such as the files included in a particular
> game release).
I think this is a tangental battle for another day. Not really
related to the patch/RFC at hand.
- Derek
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