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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: M51DPS on 15 September 2004, 06:51

Title: JPEG Vulnerability
Post by: M51DPS on 15 September 2004, 06:51

Before you start bashing microsoft, try not to forget about the recent PNG vulnerability....

 

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As reported by numerous sources (http://news.google.com/?hl=en&ncl=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/9662784.htm), a new vulnerability has been disclosed (and patched) by Microsoft. This one concerns the parsing of JPEGs in XP Microsoft applications. A buffer overflow can be used to execute arbitrary code. So all those times you told your parents/friends that looking at images was safe - well, not anymore.

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Article (http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/09/14/2226226.shtml?tid=172&tid=128&tid=201&tid=218)

Title: JPEG Vulnerability
Post by: Stilly on 15 September 2004, 21:44

but it says its been patched

Title: JPEG Vulnerability
Post by: worker201 on 15 September 2004, 11:17

Call me when there's a tiff or eps vulnerability.
  :D

Title: JPEG Vulnerability
Post by: WMD on 16 September 2004, 00:01

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Before you start bashing microsoft, try not to forget about the recent PNG vulnerability....

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But was that in the format, or the parser?  I can't remember, was it in libpng?

Title: JPEG Vulnerability
Post by: Refalm on 16 September 2004, 01:35

First mp3 played by Winamp contained virusses, then Trillian skins, right after PNG's and now JPG's.

When does the non-executable file format virusses stop?