Six year old PDF loop bug affects most major implementations
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/59-Six-year-old-PDF-loop-bug-affects-most-major-implementations.html [blog.fuzzing-project.org]
2017-09-05 00:17
It is remarkable that a bug that was discovered six years ago affected the majority of widely used PDF implementations. But it falls into a pattern of IT security: Very often discovering security issues means rediscovering old issues. In general this is a difficult problem to solve, as it touches complex questions about knowledge transfer.
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