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SVG images aren’t just images, they’re documents and it’s not safe to serve random people’s svg images on your website.

Here’s a tool that fixes it, and sanitizes #SVG #images to make them as innocent as a JPEG:
github.com/cloudflare/svg-hush

(In #Rustlang, of course)


GitHub - cloudflare/svg-hush: Make it safe to serve untrusted SVG files

Make it safe to serve untrusted SVG files. Contribute to cloudflare/svg-hush development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#images #RustLang #svg
in reply to Kornel

Chris 🌱
Chris 🌱
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@federicomena does librsvg sanitize SVG before rendering? I'm thinking of how GTK calls into librsvg to render svg files.
@Federico Mena Quintero
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Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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No explicit sanitization step, but it has a policy about loading external resources (see the docs), and catches things like circular references and exponential growth in <use>.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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limits to catch explosion of elements: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…

src/limits.rs · main · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

A library to render SVG images to Cairo surfaces. GNOME uses this to render SVG icons. Outside of GNOME, other desktop environments use it for similar purposes. Wikimedia...
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