[sldev] GTK 2.8

Thomas Grmishaw tom at streamsense.net
Tue Mar 4 05:19:28 PST 2008


> I'm considering some changes to the Linux client (mostly Alissa's
> LLWindowGTK) which would require GTK 2.8+.  The client's current
> requirement is around the GTK 2.4 level.  Would this cause
> compile-time or run-time problems for anyone?
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GTK+ 2.4 had some pretty major buffer overflow vulnerabilities (to do 
with image processing, AFAIK not exploitable via SL since it uses OpenGL 
to handle imges), however I don't think there's an active dist which 
still includes it.

Out of curiosity, what improvements are planned? 


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