I've heard of attacks using PDF files on Windows with Adobe Acrobat and Foxit Reader.
Is Linux vulnerable to these attacks when using the default PDF viewers in KDE or Gnome or even xpdf? What is a good PDF scanner to determine if a PDF file is evil?
Best Answer
Linux generally uses poppler or xpdf to parse PDF files, which do not have the same vulnerabilities. Obviously, Acrobat Reader for Linux is likely to have at least some of the same vulnerabilities as its Windows and OS X counterparts.