Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Well, the submitter spoke about some mal code sent to somebody, who calls it and the LaTeX file does something really bad. I don't know how realistic that scenario is. Well, normally I don't read very long documnents before processing them....
since one can open a file and write to it, one can overwrite a system file and mess up a machine; there is not much that one can do about it, (apart from setting permissions of files/paths) since tex jobs needs auxiliary files; just don't process files you don't trustHans
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