full-disclosure - 0-day for sale on ebay

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Message-ID: <27838582.1134174624352.JavaMail.juha-matti.laurio@netti.fi>
Date: Sat Dec 10 00:30:38 2005
From: juha-matti.laurio at netti.fi (Juha-Matti Laurio)
Subject: 0-day for sale on ebay

Btw, when checked the price was $64 and then at 9AM Finnish-time it was gone.

But anyway, your screenshot with 'bid $0.01' is cool in a certain way..
We have the fact that the recent CVSS Severity is 2.8 and it was 
researched on Dec. 6th, we can just wait the fix now.

- Juha-Matti
 

> 
> : They have even assigned a CVE entry for this: 
> : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2005-4131
> : 
> : Some interesting references with a screenshot included too.
> 
> Microsoft has verified the bug is legitimate though:
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1899697,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614
> 
> heBay Pulls Bidding for MS Excel Vulnerability
> By Ryan Naraine
> December 9, 2005
> 
> Whats the retail value of a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.s 
> Excel spreadsheet program? At last check: $53 and counting.
> 
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