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Date: Thu Dec 29 18:02:34 2005
From: snowhare at nihongo.org (Benjamin Franz)
Subject: test this

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Peter Ferrie wrote:

> Perhaps you should read about it on Microsoft's site. It's not a buffer 
> overflow.  WMF files since at least Windows 3.0 days have been allowed 
> to carry executable code in the form of their own SetAbortProc handler. 
> This is perfectly legitimate, though the design is a poor one.  The only 
> thing that has changed is the code that is being executed.
>
> 8^) p.

So, in essence, Broken As Designed.

Mix in a generous helping of 'type sniffing' by MS so that you can name 
WMF files .gif or .jpg or some other random suffix and you have one hell 
of a problem that can only really be completely fixed by MS releasing a 
patch to kill execution of embedded executable code in WMF files.

Just lovely. :(

-- 
Benjamin Franz

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

                                                          - Donald E. Knuth