Images with unknown content: Dangerous for a browser?

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Published on 2010-06-11T11:57:20Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 12:12 UTC
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Let's say I allow users to link to any images they like. The link would be checked for syntactical correctness, escaping etc., and then inserted in an <img src="..."/> tag.

Are there any known security vulnerabilities, e.g. by someone linking to "evil.example.com/evil.jpg", and evil.jpg contains some code that will be executed due to a browser bug or something like that?

(Let's ignore CSRF attacks - it must suffice that I will only allow URLs with typical image file suffixes.)

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