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

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Date: Sun Jan 15 22:47:27 2006
From: pferrie at symantec.com (Peter Ferrie)
Subject: Re: [ GLSA 200601-09
	]Wine:Windows	MetafileSETABORTPROC vulnerability

>>It's insecure-by-design, but it's working exactly as written.
>>It's been in there for _15_ years, and ported to every version of Windows.
>>Windows 3.0 supports it. :-/
>
>I'm still having a bit of trouble following Gibson's explanation of how the
>WMF flaw works, but it's my impression he says it does *not* operate
>according to spec. And yet Wine is vulnerable. Am I wrong?

Steve is wrong.  Wine was (I believe that a patch was released) vulnerable
because the function was documented exactly as it behaves, and they coded to that.
 
8^) p.