On 11/15/11 10:26 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
On 15 November 2011 18:56, Noel
Chiappa<jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Gee, I don't see my OS listed on that page. What do I do know?
Let DuckDuckGo tell you what it knows about "Powerpoint viewer ubuntu".
FWIW I like ppt(x) better than pdf, "anything pdf" is huge. For simple
slides (x)html or whatever the "slide" option of xml2rfc produces could
be nice, packaged as "mozilla archive format" or any other style of a
zipped subdirectory.
Many exploits appear in ppt and pptx formats (where pptx reduces
scanning complexity). Limiting acceptance (or publishing) to pdf/a is a
safer and more stable choice. Documentation formats related to IETF
efforts should be stable to ensure documents can be read at a later date.
In May of this year, patches were needed to mitigate ongoing PPT threats.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-036
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2010-2935_CVE-2010-2936.html
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2009/04/02/new-0-day-exploits-using-powerpoint-files.aspx
OpenOffice permits file system based references as well.
-Doug
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