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>Arbitrary code from what? BMP, PNG ??

>Posted Tuesday 1st May 2007 11:59 GMT

>PNG and BMP files are just graphic files, not binary. There is no >way arbitrary code could be run from inside them since any binary >would simply be read by the algorithms either giving a corrupted file >result or just discarded..

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