full-disclosure - Re: AOL YGP Picture Editor YGPPicEdit.dll Multiple Buffer Overflows

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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:35:46 -0600
From: reepex <reepex@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: AOL YGP Picture Editor YGPPicEdit.dll
	Multiple Buffer Overflows

I believe I have contributed greatly to the security community with my post
here. Not only have I denied another 0x41414141 hacker but I have also made
Valdis have to backtrack on his ( as usual) stupid post. I believe Valdis
and Billy O Reilly have alot in common. ( "
"I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans
should be concerned about this…What do you want me to do, go over and kiss
the camera?" ).

On Dec 27, 2007 9:05 AM, Elazar Broad <elazarb@...thlink.net> wrote:

> After some more analysis by Carsten Eiram @ Secunia, this is NOT
> exploitable. I would like to apologize for the hasty post. SecurityFocus,
> please update bid 27026 to reflect the fact that at most, this can just
> crash the browser.
>
> Elazar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
> >Sent: Dec 26, 2007 1:28 AM
> >To: reepex <reepex@...il.com>
> >Cc: Elazar Broad <elazarb@...thlink.net>,
> full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> >Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] AOL YGP Picture Editor YGPPicEdit.dllMultiple Buffer Overflows
> >
> >On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:53:29 CST, reepex said:
> >
> >> How does a bunch of 'A's prove something is exploitable?
> >
> >If a bunch of A's causes the EIP to end up as x'41414141', it's 95% of
> the
> >way to being an exploit.  If it gets you some *other* crash, it's
> probably
> >at least 30% to 40% of the way to an exploit.
> >
> >Go back and read the analysis of the NTP buffer overflow from a number of
> years
> >back.  Truly a classic - they managed to leverage a *one byte* overflow
> into
> >a complete and total rooting of the box.
>
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