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

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Message-ID: <4C124FB4.8020909@freerun.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:01:08 -0700
From: Benjamin Franz <jfranz@...erun.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles
 Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

On 06/11/2010 02:40 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
> In my humble opinion, he could have waited a couple more days just in 
> case Microsoft decided to do the unprecedented.
> In which case, I progressive change of policies at Microsoft are 
> better than a couple of users getting hacked from pron sites...
As I said: Travis indicated in his original post he believes the exploit 
*was already being used in the wild*. So NOT releasing it wouldn't 
protect users. It would just keep it "secret" from everyone except 
Microsoft *and the black hats who were already using it*. While 
maintaining a false air of intact security for everyone else.

That is better, how?

-- 
Benjamin Franz

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