[sldev] Viewer Security Record?
Adam Frisby
adam at gwala.net
Tue Nov 27 20:28:34 PST 2007
Has been the occasional buffer overflow. Eg, the profile window had one
for a while, although generally it's been pretty good - I cant think of
much in recent history.
Regards,
Adam
Jeff Barr wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Like many others, I'm going to have to work to convince our corporate
> IT folks to allow the bog-standard, compiled-by-Linden SL viewer to run on
> our corporate desktops.
>
> Objections include the fact that SL is a game (easily refutable), that
> it uses
> non-standard network ports (a big issue but solvable) and that the
> binary might have
> security holes, trojans, or other nastiness buried inside.
>
> Now that the viewer has been available in source form for a while I
> would like
> to be able to tell them (if is indeed the case) that many eyes have been
> over
> the code and that no major security issues have surfaced to date.
>
> Has anyone else been through this before? What kind of ammunition did you
> use?
>
> Jeff;
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