full-disclosure - Re: [ GLSA 200601-09 ] Wine:Windows MetafileSETABORTPROC vulnerability

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Date: Fri Jan 13 23:22:38 2006
From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (bkfsec)
Subject: Re: [ GLSA 200601-09
	]	Wine:Windows	MetafileSETABORTPROC vulnerability

Peter Ferrie wrote:

>bkfsec:
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>>The way I read what he's saying there, he's saying that you enter
>>malformed input and that malformed input pushes the executable code into
>>position to be executed...
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> 
>There is no need for malformed input, though.
>The description isn't great, since upon return from the function, Windows
>will resume parsing the records in the usual way.
> 
>8^) p.
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I agree - I was focusing on how Gibson described it and his 
justification of it being a planted vulnerability.  *shrug* 

             -bkfsec