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Re: Major Security Vulnerabilities in Remote CD Databases

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (itudps)
Wed Nov 27 00:10:34 1996

Date: 	Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:26:23 +1030
Reply-To: itudps <itudps@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au>
From: itudps <itudps@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.961126203741.1613A-100000@phoenix.iss.net>

> XMCD source is available freely under the GNU Public License, and I have
> examined it for possible security problems; some or all of the Windows based
> cd players do not have source available and so I am unable to directly
> determine if they are vulnerable to similar problems; from a security
> standpoint I think it is prudent to assume that they are until there is
> evidence to the contrary.

This brings up a related issue: has any work at all been done on buffer
overflows on Windows/95/NT?

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 Dan Shearer                            email: Dan.Shearer@UniSA.edu.au
 Information Technology Unit            Phone: +61 8 302 3479
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