[Okular-devel] new xpdf vulnerability

[Dirk Mueller]

On Tuesday, 9. January 2007 20:01, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> So for me it seems it's speedy enough. (i know debug figures mean nothing,
> but it's a nothing very similar to other nothing)

4% slowdown is serious imho. A simple fix for this vulnerability would be to 
limit the recursion depth more or less arbitrarily (e.g. no more than 32 
recursions). wouldn't that work as well?


Dirk