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Ian Bradshaw

RE: Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths

From: Nick FitzGerald [mailto:nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:51 PM
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths

Ian Bradshaw wrote:

> This isn't a security issue its a privacy issue.

If the leaked, embedded paths can be things like UNCs or IP-based 
internal server addresses, it is arguably a bit more than a privacy 

Re: Millions of PDF invisibly embedded with your internal disk paths

Ian Bradshaw wrote:

> This isn't a security issue its a privacy issue.

If the leaked, embedded paths can be things like UNCs or IP-based 
internal server addresses, it is arguably a bit more than a privacy 
issue, allowing silent, external, partial mapping of the corporate 
intranet.

Not good if your organization is in the habit of making lots of PDFs 



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