Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o...
by stevekemp on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:10AM
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If you run/operate/host an online service which allows rendering user-submitted LaTeX you must care about security.
There are a bunch of sites which take arbitrary input and convert it to PDF - they're often easily exploited, to allow arbitrary files to be read from the server, and commands executed:
There are a bunch of sites which take arbitrary input and convert it to PDF - they're often easily exploited, to allow arbitrary files to be read from the server, and commands executed: