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

Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by m463 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:35PM (#23188596)

This sounds like a page in a playbook for a company that wants to maintain their monopoly.

- it is plausibly open

- there are enough edge cases that your tool is the only one that does it reliably.

This is similar to doc format - apple tools or openoffice can open it, but screw it up for everyone if they try to write it.

There is a wonderful rant about another adobe file format .PSD in this code here:

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by dhimes on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:19PM (#23197557)

That's beautiful. However, if I weren't an only child in two weeks I would take exception to that "old" bit describing the Uncle.

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