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Re: Windows Vulnerabilities/Exploits Du Jour

  • Subject: Re: Windows Vulnerabilities/Exploits Du Jour
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:54:36 -0800
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <2652546.Y9DtuMx7QW@schestowitz.com> <1171822519.696920.239490@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:496102
On 18 Feb 2007 10:15:19 -0800, "Reporter" <TruckSafety@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Feb 18, 12:24 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> The Program.exe Problem
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | A couple years ago I mentioned in a SecurityFocus column that Windows
>> | has a problem when you put a file named "program.exe" in the system
>> | root directory. The problem is basically in how it deals with spaces
>> | in paths that don't have quotes around them. Anyone with the
>> | permissions to create a file in the root directory could create a
>> | malicious program that could escalate their privileges.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Microsoft has been aware of this issue since Windows NT 4, and it
>> | affects every version of windows since then, but surprisingly few
>> | people have really exploited it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://xato.net/bl/2007/02/17/the-programexe-problem/
>>
>> Vista WGA Crack + Latest Stop Timer
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Next Windows Vista Stop Time Crack and Vista Genuine file NEW CRACK.
>> | This is first Vista WGA crack.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.it-networks.org/?news=255
>
>Roy is the coolest poster.


Very powerful bit of writing there Purporter, following, as it does, a
piece of hard citing and commentary.

Do you ever get frustrated being an utter non-issue, and as well
completely ineffective?

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