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Re: More vulnerabilities in FP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron van Daal)
Mon Apr 24 12:04:17 2000

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> To test this vulnerability we need "htimage.exe" in our "cgi-bin"
> directory (it's installed by default) and premission to execute it.
> That's why only Windows is vulnerable, Unix to execute "htimage.exe" +
> If "htimage.exe" exist). based systems can't execute "*.exe" files.

Incorrect. The FrontPage98 server extensions for Linux contains several
*.exe files, which are 32-bit ELF executables. The Linux port of the FP98
server extensions isn't vulnerable, because of the missing htimage.exe.

Regards,

Ron van Daal | Syntonic Internet | The Netherlands

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