DSA-3547 imagemagick – security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Imagemagick, a program suite for
image manipulation. This update fixes a large number of potential security
problems such as null-pointer access and buffer-overflows that might lead
to memory leaks or denial of service. None of these security problems have
a CVE number assigned.

end of useable crypto in browsers?

Posted by Árpád Magosányi on Apr 09

Hi,

This is not a security vulnerability in itself, “just” a trend
undermining the trust architecture of the whole internet 🙂

I think it is very important, and wonder why I don’t see any discussion
of it. If this is not the right forum to discuss it, please direct me to
the right place.

The problem is:

Browser developers are dropping support for X509 key generation.
Yes, <keygen> have its problems. But window.crypto -…

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