bugtraq - WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:31:16 -0500
From: "Brooks, Shane" <SBrooks@...ngelake.com>
To: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?

I've recently had my attention brought to a post from Steve Gibson in the grc.com forums, which contains the following quote:

<snippet>
	The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that this [setAbortProc procedure] 
was a deliberate backdoor put into all of Microsoft's recent editions of Windows.
</snippet>

full article here:
http://www.grc.com/x/news.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.news.feedback&item=60006

thoughts?

Shane

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