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Sure, PDF is a bit hairy. But you also can choose to not use Acrobat Reader. If you use e.g. Preview (macOS) or Evince (Linux) then I would wager that it’s not
by cpach 6y ago
Sure, PDF is a bit hairy. But you also can choose to not use Acrobat Reader. If you use e.g. Preview (macOS) or Evince (Linux) then I would wager that it’s not exactly trivial to get remote code execution. (Most probably possible though, but it would probably take some work.)
- leoh 6y agoI think all clients are a bit questionable since it's such a complex format and because most clients are not written in safe languages. Although they're rarer, even Mac OS X's Preview.app has had CVEs.