SELinux

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 20 21:36:15 UTC 2011


Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:

[...]

> To be honest am not sure what are u talking about ? I was always under the
> impression that pdf is just another form of document , ok with formating
> pictures embedded , or whatever else . I didn´t knew that it actually 
> contained
> code that could be executed and mess things up .

Initially, that's what it was. However, it can now have embedded
Java, automatically perform what might be considered "browsser"
activities (like searching the web, opening and pulling in
referenced documents, and the like) and other activities I
don't want a file viewer performing.

Mike
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