full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) memory corruption

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:02:33 -0700
From: Peter Ferrie <peter.ferrie@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe)
 memory corruption

> I was looking and appear that this bug was fixed a long time ago at ms,

No, the bugs remain.  However...

> also windows help (.hlp) do not appear to be automatic opened in windows
> vista and later.

That's the point - hlp is such an unsafe file format that the
winhlp32.exe was *removed* from Vista.

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