Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Buffer Overflow (Exploit)
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| The following exploit utilizes the XML
| vulnerability in Internet Explorer to
| execute arbitrary code under Vista.
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http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/6V00L2ANFS.html
OK. Hardly surprising.
Windows Media Player Integer Overflow in Playing WAV Files Lets Remote
Users Execute Arbitrary Code
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| A vulnerability was reported in Windows
| Media Player. A remote user can cause
| arbitrary code to be executed on the
| target user's system.
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http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Dec/1021495.html
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Executable code in a bitstream!?
'Boom year' for hi-tech criminals
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| Criminal gangs generate so many viruses for two main
| reasons. Firstly, many variants of essentially the
| same malicious program can cause problems for
| anti-virus software which can only reliably
| defend against threats it is aware of.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7797280.stm
Secondly, it's so piss-easy to code malware for a certain platform it
beggars belief.
Recent:
Microsoft Fixes Eight Flaws With Four Critical Patches
http://www.crn.com/security/210600625
...and opens up sixteen more holes in the process...
Bots rule in cyberspace
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
I mean, come on! Wake up and smell the maple nut crunch! Microsoft's
core product has become a joke.
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TLP
- Last night I played a blank tape at full volume. The mime next door
went nuts.
- No, I will not fix your computer.
- Thought: It must be a bitch to write your name in the snow in Arabic...
- Don't sweat the petty things, pet the sweaty things.
- Rice: 1.4 billion Chinese can't all be wrong.
*#* Signoff: labo-rat (find / -name \*yourbase\* -exec chown us:us {} \;)
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