[35777] in bugtraq
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jordan Cole (stilist))
Sun Jul 18 22:11:52 2004
Message-ID: <10598937040714183238a299ba@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:32:08 -0400
From: "Jordan Cole (stilist)" <stilist@gmail.com>
To: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com,
tlarholm@pivx.com, brett.moore@security-assessment.com
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> Being curious, on Win2k, I copied cmd.exe (from winnt\system32) as xyz.pif;
> then (right-click) Properties, Program crashes explorer.
I'd say that's because you changed the filetype; pif files simply
contain information on how to handle a DOS executable; they aren't a
program themselves. All you did was make it get confused and kill
itself.
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