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Date: Thu Jan 19 20:55:51 2006
From: stan.bubrouski at gmail.com (Stan Bubrouski)
Subject: Security Bug in MSVC

On 1/19/06, redsand <redsand@...sand.net> wrote:
>
>
> i think the author of this advisory is desperate for advisories or
> attention.

Well maybe the guy was just misled because Microsoft led him to
believe it was something exciting?  Either way it seems like anyone
could open a project file in notepad and insert/modify anything they
want in there.  I mean its not like we've ever been able to trust
projects or Makefiles/configures anyways.

>
> either way he needs to open a disassembler and work on something else.
>

-sb

> Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Morning Wood wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>extract, and open hello.dsw
> >>click "batch build, build" or "rebuild all"
> >>code will execute ( calc.exe and notepad.exe used as an example )
> >>
> >>
> >
> >What's the point of building a bunch of sources unless
> >1. you trust their author, or
> >2. you have made sure their is nothing malicious there?
> >
> >When you build an executable from untrusted sources, you get an untrusted
> >executable. Either you run it and you're screwed anyway, or you don't run
> >it and you wasted your time building it.
> >
> >(Indeed, there are some marginal cases like when you want to build an
> >executable file intended to run on someone else's computer...)
> >
> >--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
> >"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
> >
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