Doesn't Adobe (and possibly other PDF viewers) include PDF rendering with 
javascript now?

I just want a "dumb" .pdf reader. Is it just me?


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District


----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Scott
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To: NT System Admin Issues
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Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2013
14:46:31 -0800
Subject: Re: FoxIT reader vulnerability


> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Richard McClary
> <richard.mccl...@aspca.org> wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/foxit_pdf_plugin_vuln/
> >
> > Just now checked the FoxIT web site.  The currently offered version is
> > 5.4.4.1128, which the article mentions as being vulnerable (as are older
> > versions).
> >
> > May end up having to use Adobe anyway…
> 
>   I strongly suspect FoxIt licenses at least their core code from
> Adobe.  Many features and vulnerabilities seem to track on a
> one-to-one basis.
> 
>   FoxIt is a lot more lightweight, though, so it prolly has a smaller
> attack surface overall.  It may be they just don't include all the
> bloat that Adobe does.
> 
> -- Ben
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