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Maybe it's time for a PDF-2017 standard that drops support for those older exploitable formats

• colejohnson66 9y ago
  If they’re exploitable, how would a new version help? Attackers would just use the older, exploitable versions. And if PDF viewers only allowed the newer version, you’d break support with every PDF made.
  • joshribakoff 9y ago
    Its called deprecation / forwards compatibility
  • Dylan16807 9y ago
    >And if PDF viewers only allowed the newer version, you’d break support with every PDF made. That is not at all something that would have to be true.
• icebraining 9y ago
  Yes, it's called PDF/A.