Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently

Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by dathinab on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:58PM (#23184579)

There is quite a bunch of "PDF" features around forms which basically only work with Adobe PDF and maybe one or two other ones. But good luck if non of them are available for you.

Worse many "office" people which create PDF's with form fields use Adobe tools, so they never see that what they hand out to thousends of students isn't working with >90% of PDF viewers....

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by rspeed on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:31AM (#23188914)

It's because of this. Adobe hates us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA

Further reading: https://eclecticlight.co/2019/06/18/pdf-without-adobe-23-the...

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