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Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers

6 hours ago
  • #GTK
  • #PDF
  • #Exploit
  • A script builds polyglot PDFs that are both valid PDF files and ELF binaries.
  • Clicking a malicious link in the PDF exploits a command injection to load the PDF as a GTK module via `--gtk-module`.
  • This executes arbitrary code through the library constructor.
  • GTK 4 removed the flag, reducing severity for Papers but affecting Evince, Atril, and Xreader.