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Processing Dangerous Paths: On Security and Privacy of the Portable Document Format

Processing Dangerous Paths – On Security and Privacy of the Portable Document Format

A systematic study of dangerous paths through the PDF file structure that abuses standard features rather than implementation bugs. The resulting attacks span denial of service, information disclosure leaking personal data off the victim machine, data manipulation and code execution; 26 of 28 popular PDF applications were vulnerable to at least one.

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Processing Dangerous Paths – On Security and Privacy of the Portable Document Format
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Jens Müller, Dominik Noss, Christian Mainka, Vladislav Mladenov and Jörg Schwenk
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NDSS Symposium
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This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Jens Müller, Dominik Noss, Christian Mainka, Vladislav Mladenov and Jörg Schwenk, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on .