full-disclosure - Bill Gates blames the victim

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Bill Gates blames the victim

--On Sunday, August 31, 2003 12:31:03 -0300 pandora@....com.br wrote:
>
> And what about the flaws MS probably found during the code audit and that
> were never published? I would like to see MS releasing patches/fixes for
> flaws they found during these audits. Or did they find none?
>
The only thing we know for certain is that they didn't find them all.  That 
point has been driven home decisively by Blaster and Nachi.

During the launch of Windows XP, Microsoft announced that they had 
"eliminated" buffer overflows in Windows XP (using a commercial tool that 
they had purchased.)  One month later eEye announced what I still believe 
to be the most devastating hole in Windows, the UPnP vulnerability.  It 
hasn't been exploited like RPC DCOM has, but it's an even more serious 
vulnerabilty.

How many more are lying around waiting to be exploited?  It's obvious that 
Microsoft doesn't know.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu