[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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