full-disclosure - Re: Security Bug in MSVC

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Message-ID: <dqm6lv$fvg$1@sea.gmane.org>
Date: Wed Jan 18 19:59:47 2006
From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave Korn)
Subject: Re: Security Bug in MSVC


Jason Coombs wrote in news:43CD7A48.1020800@...ence.org
> Morning Wood wrote:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>      - EXPL-A-2006-002 exploitlabs.com Advisory 048 -
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>               - MSVC 6.0 run file bug -
>
> Nice thinking, Donnie. This must be the "new class of vulnerability"
> that was hinted at by Microserfs a few months ago... The attacks are
> launched by way of source code distributions rather than binary code.

  Why is this a terrible insecure microsoftism, when GNU make does exactly 
the same?

  And let's never forget those evil 'configure' scripts.  Hell, at least 
they actually *have* been an attack vector on several occasions.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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