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Yep - even though Acrobat is the standard for PDFs on the desktop, there's a world of difference between "PDFs I download may be malicious" and "links I click a
by btown 4y ago
Yep - even though Acrobat is the standard for PDFs on the desktop, there's a world of difference between "PDFs I download may be malicious" and "links I click and frames I load may be malicious." The idea that https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28550 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28550 could have been exploited without requiring a download would have been a disaster.
(Though, I should add, memory safety is by no means a guarantee of software being free of code-execution vulnerabilities... but it certainly does help!)