full-disclosure - RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll

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Message-ID: <10598937040714183238a299ba@mail.gmail.com>
From: stilist at gmail.com (Jordan Cole (stilist))
Subject: RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll

> Being curious, on Win2k, I copied cmd.exe (from winnt\system32) as xyz.pif;
> then (right-click) Properties, Program crashes explorer.

I'd say that's because you changed the filetype; pif files simply
contain information on how to handle a DOS executable; they aren't a
program themselves. All you did was make it get confused and kill
itself.

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