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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by cpach on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:27AM (#23699580)
Sure, PDF is a bit hairy. But you also can choose to not use Acrobat Reader. If you use e.g. Preview (macOS) or Evince (Linux) then I would wager that it’s not exactly trivial to get remote code execution. (Most probably possible though, but it would probably take some work.)
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Re:New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy by leoh on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:20PM (#23752882)
I think all clients are a bit questionable since it's such a complex format and because most clients are not written in safe languages. Although they're rarer, even Mac OS X's Preview.app has had CVEs.
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