full-disclosure - Re: WinXP IE .HLP file 0day

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Message-ID: <b1fed46e1002260930k2ce3d8dbkc7b806cfc9201c4b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:30:44 -0800
From: Peter Ferrie <peter.ferrie@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: WinXP IE .HLP file 0day

> Rather funny than scary:
> http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities10.html

There are loads of known vulns in winhlp32.exe, particularly in the
decompression routines.  That's why it was removed from Vista, and why
.hlp files are considered to be dangerous file formats.

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