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Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curt Purdy)
Sun Jul 18 23:56:29 2004
From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy@tecman.com>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:09:30 -0500
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Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, but how long is it now since we've been telling programmers
> "don't trust user-supplied data"?? (Hmmmm -- does it also fail on
> W2K3??)
No, in W2K3 you get "Cannot query the properties for this program. There may
not be enough memory available. blah blah" as opposed to 100% cpu in 2K.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions
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