[tex-live] Recent poppler vulnerabilities?

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Sat Oct 24 17:18:04 CEST 2009


2009/10/24 Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan at mccme.ru>:
> Wild guess: is poppler involved when you do
> \includegraphics{input.pdf} in pdflatex?

Yes. Or XPDF. But there the program only parses PDFs. Hard to exploit
and most likely the program will simply crash.

Best
   Martin


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