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		tonyedgecombe on Dec 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader No, but XML parsing is a solved problem, PDF parsing isn't.

tinus_hn on Dec 15, 2018 [–]

The original criticism was that some parts are just binary blobs encoded in XML elements, which wouldn’t suprise me at all, with Microsoft being allowed to tick the ‘XML file format’ checkbox and still getting to keep the binary format advantages.

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