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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 22:10:50 +0200
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: Leonid Isaev <leonid.isaev@...a.colorado.edu>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ghostscript: bypassing executeonly to escape
-dSAFER sandbox (CVE-2018-17961)
Hi,
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 09:30:06 -0600
Leonid Isaev <leonid.isaev@...a.colorado.edu> wrote:
> Which means any postscript file downloaded from the internet... Then
> how should people read arXiv.org, for example?
Surprised by this claim I did a quick check on arxiv. I don't see any
papers that are only available as postscript. All papers seem to be
available as PDF, some additionally as PS.
Which also makes sense: Many browsers support direct PDF display. While
PDF is also a complex format with pitfalls I'd still trust the
in-browser PDF readers much more than something like ghostscript.
If there are sites that rely on PS documents they should probably be
encouraged to do a server-side sandboxed auto-conversion of them and
offer PDF also.
--
Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/
mail/jabber: hanno@...eck.de
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