A look at Portable Document Format vulnerabilities

  • Authors:
  • Sami Rautiainen

  • Affiliations:
  • Stonesoft Corporation, Italahdenkatu 22 A, 00210 Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Information Security Tech. Report
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Portable Document Format (PDF) developed by Adobe Systems Inc. is a flexible and popular document distribution and delivery file format, and it is supported within various operating systems and devices. This article provides insight for some of the security issues within the format itself as well as an outlook of the vulnerabilities found from various versions of Adobe's own PDF viewer implementation.