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Exploit based on leaked Windows code released
Patrick Gray, SecurityFocus 2004-02-16

The first new security vulnerability to emerge from last week's Microsoft source code leak crossed a security mailing list over the weekend, reigniting debate over the seriousness of the leak.

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I posted that vulnerability in August 2000 2004-02-16
John Nagle
See: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7070&cid=859419

In that Slashdot article back in 2000, I reported that vulnerability, writing "The ... decompressor for RLE-compressed .BMP files is in the kernel, and contains a buffer overflow."

I didn't need the source code to find that problem. I fo...

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