[vlc-devel] Lua extension and vlc.misc

[Pierre Ynard]

> Now, people use it to save temp/cache files with io.open

What prevents scripts from reading or overwriting arbitrary files? Even
using the API provided by VLC, you can read and leak data from arbitrary
files, can't you? So I don't really get the fuss about discovering that
lua scripts are a security issue.

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Pierre Ynard
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