bugtraq - Re: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

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Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:16:57 +0100
From: gat0r <gat0r@...ghguy.net>
To: Nancy Kramer <nekramer@...dtheater.net>, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org>,
	<bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Cc: "FunSec \[List\]" <funsec@...uxbox.org>,
	"full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

If you are still running windows 98 or ME,  you are just plain wrong...

On 1/3/06 11:35 AM, "Nancy Kramer" <nekramer@...dtheater.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I went to the patch site mentioned although I am currently running  a
> version of Windows it supposedly cannot help.  Down loaded and ran the
> vulnerability check program there expecting it to say that my system is
> vulnerable.  Interestingly it said it was not vulnerable.  I run Free AVG
> as my anti virus and a couple of updates came down today so possibly that
> did something.  Just thought I would pass this along.
> 
> Might be interesting to try it with other unpatched or unpatcheable
> versions of Windows running different types of anti virus.  Got a new
> computer with XP Pro a few days ago so will patch that and work to move
> into it sooner than I was planning.
> 
> I know quite a few home users who are still running Windows 98 and ME,
> possibly many will be vulnerable.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nancy Kramer
> Webmaster http://www.americandreamcars.com
> Free Color Picture Ads for Collector Cars
> One of the Ten Best Places To Buy or Sell a Collector Car on the Web
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:28 AM 1/3/2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
> 
>> Quite a bit of confusing and a vast amount of information coming from all
>> directions about the WMF 0day. Here are some URL's and generic facts to
>> set us straight.
>> 
>> The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in Windows.
>> So far no problems have been observed by anyone using this patch. You
>> should naturally check it out for yourselves but I and many others
>> recommend it until Microsoft bothers to show up with their own patch.
>> 
>> Ilfak is trusted and is in no way a Bad Guy.
>> 
>> You can find more information about it at his blog:
>> http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html
>> 
>> If you are still not sure about the patch by Ilfak, check out the
>> discussion of it going on in the funsec list about the patch, with Ilfak
>> participating:
>> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
>> Occasional information of new WMF problems keep coming in over there.
>> 
>> In this URL you can find the best summary I have seen of the WMF issue:
>> http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=994
>> by the "SANS ISC diary" team.
>> 
>> In this URL you can find the best write-up I have seen on the WMF issue:
>> http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/167
>> By Matthew Murphy at the "Securiteam Blogs".
>> 
>> Also, it should be noted at this time that since the first public
>> discovery of this "problem", a new one has been coming in - every day. All
>> the ones seen so far are variants of the original and in all ways the SAME
>> problem. So, it would be best to acknowledge them as the same... or we
>> will keep having a NEW 0day which really isn't for about 2 months when all
>> these few dozen variations are exhausted.
>> 
>> A small BUT IMPORTANT correction for future generations:
>> The 0day was originally found and reported by Hubbard Dan from Websense on
>> a closed vetted security mailing list, and later on at the Websense public
>> page. All those who took credit for it took it wrongly.
>> 
>> Thanks, and a better new year to us all,
>> 
>>         Gadi.
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> 

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