full-disclosure - PDF's unsafe?

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Date: Thu Sep 22 08:14:39 2005
From: martin.pitt at canonical.com (Martin Pitt)
Subject: PDF's unsafe?

Hi!

Geo. [2005-09-21 11:34 -0400]:
> Haven't any of the security firms checked out adobe pdf reader to see if
> it's safe? It took 5 minutes to create this nonsense
> http://www.nthelp.com/test.pdf and that's just using the standard features.
> I hate to think what a real hacker could do with a pdf.

http://folk.uio.no/gisle/trap.html might be an interesting read for
those interested in this topic. :-)

Martin
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