bugtraq - RE: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?

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Message-ID: <5ECA7F114577634186484375514DBB5109894B2B@hurricane.ssdcorp.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:58:22 -0500
From: "Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE@...belt-software.com>
To: "Brooks, Shane" <SBrooks@...ngelake.com>,
	<bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?


Microsoft response

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/13/417431.aspx




-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks, Shane [mailto:SBrooks@...ngelake.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 2:31 PM
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=6
0006

thoughts?


Shane



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