full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

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Message-ID: <20100610175936.GB31764@cmpxchg8b.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:59:36 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: Thomas Kristensen <tk@...unia.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@....lonestar.org>, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles
	Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:21:48PM +0200, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:02:03PM +0200, Thomas Kristensen wrote:
> > Tavis,
> > 
> > Nice find, but during our analysis we discovered that your hotfix
> > unfortunately is inadequate.
> > 
> > For more information see:
> > http://secunia.com/blog/103/
> > 
> 
> Patches are, of course, welcome.
> 
> Thanks, Tavis.

Thomas, on some examination, your theory looks accurate, good catch :-)

This doesnt seem unsurmountable, but I'm reluctant to update the patch
which was only intended as a last resort. I'll work on some ideas to
address this.

If you have any thoughts, please let me know.

Thanks, Tavis.

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