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

Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by ngold on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:13PM (#23187745)

I just wish I understood what everyone is doing that needs adobe? Anything.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by mekster on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:58PM (#23200094)

I don't even want to use it but the client passes me a PSD which I have to open accurately.

Photoshop puts like 5 folders in Utilities folder for no reason in macOS and runs bunch of daemons (which apparently can be a cause of bad vulnerabilities) and is dog slow in performance compared to a modern alternative like Affinity Photo.

Market dominance surely puts customer satisfaction to the end of the line.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by chrisweekly on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:28PM (#23208980)

Affinity Pro seems to deal w PSD pretty handily; have you tried it?

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by colejohnson66 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:20PM (#23188161)

For Photoshop, a big part of it is inertia. Companies worked with PS for years, and changing costs money. So students are taught what they’ll use (which is PS), and the cycle continues.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by tambourine_man on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:10AM (#23188810)

Do you print anything? Draw? Layout?

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by jessaustin on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:19AM (#23191816)

If you assume the answers to these questions are "yes", what is your response to GP?

If you assume the answers to these questions are "no", what is your response to GP?

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