Thread: Security threat with iOS 4 and iPad and pdf's
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Old 08-04-2010, 10:27 AM   #8
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Could someone explain (at a high level) how this security hole could cause trouble. They mention "stack overflow" and "code in an embedded font" in the article, but I don't see why that code would be executed.

I'm a high level programmer, so you don't dumb it down too much.
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