[tex-live] Recent poppler vulnerabilities?
Alexander Cherepanov
cherepan at mccme.ru
Sat Oct 24 19:28:15 CEST 2009
Hi Martin!
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:18:04 +0200, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
>> Wild guess: is poppler involved when you do
>> \includegraphics{input.pdf} in pdflatex?
> Yes. Or XPDF. But there the program only parses PDFs.
What do you mean? That the program does only high level parsing
without digging into inner details?
> Hard to exploit and most likely the program will simply crash.
Well, that's slippery slop.
Alexander Cherepanov
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