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Old 31st December 2010
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Default 27C3: danger lurks in PDF documents

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...s-1162166.html

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At the 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) in Berlin, security researcher Julia Wolf of US company FireEye pointed out numerous, previously hardly known, security problems in connection with Adobe's PDF standard. For instance, a PDF can reportedly contain a database scanner that becomes active and scans a network when the document is printed on a network printer.

Wolf said that the document format is also full of other surprises. For example, it is reportedly possible to write PDFs which display different content in different operating systems, browsers or PDF readers – or even depending on a computer's language settings.
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For example, it is reportedly possible to write PDFs which display different content in different operating systems, browsers or PDF readers…
I knew this already, as I’ve come across PDFs that display nothing but “you must download Adobe Reader to view this document.” :\

PDF is not actually a bad format, but Adobe keeps adding more and more crap to justify every new release of their software. Scripting, embedding, and all that garbage are what open the security holes. Maybe it’s time to start rejecting documents that don’t follow the sane PDF/A subset.
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Hmm, another reason to use PostScript me thinks?
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All this, from the people who brought us Flash ... surprise, surprise!!
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Hmm, another reason to use PostScript me thinks?
Wethinks so, too.
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