On 07.10.2016 13:54, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:00:05PM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
On 05.10.2016 23:50, Larry Evans wrote:
On 10/05/2016 03:07 PM, Michael Stahl wrote:
On 05.10.2016 17:24, Michael Meeks wrote:
actually the separate process is a potential security advantage, if we
would only realize that and sandbox it properly - C++ based PDF readers
tend to accumulate quite some CVEs...
[snip]
CVE = Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures?:
https://cve.mitre.org/about/
yes, now look here
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=xpdf
PDFium (Chrome’s embedded PDF reader), is not much better either:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=pdfium
ok that looks pretty bad, but then what can you expect from C++... did
anybody write a PDF library in Rust yet? that would be the one i'd want
to use :)
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