> Most readers of binary file formats can be made to read memory outside the buffer by corrupting the data
I'm pretty sure that would be considered a serious security bug for any format likely to be displayed in a web browser. For instance, an image format with such a bug would allow you to implement a heartbleed-like attack on a user's browser by displaying a malicious image and then reading back the pixel values. That would be very, very bad.
But I can believe that your statement applies to formats used by games for their own assets, where those assets come directly from the game developer.
