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RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 14 2004 11:50PM
psz maths usyd edu au (Paul Szabo) (2 replies)
RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 16 2004 04:22AM
Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov (D Yu Bolkhovityanov inp nsk su) (1 replies)
RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 16 2004 07:29PM
Curt Purdy (purdy tecman com)
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 15 2004 01:32AM
Jordan Cole (stilist) (stilist gmail com) (1 replies)
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 15 2004 03:03AM
Nick FitzGerald (nick virus-l demon co uk) (1 replies)
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 15 2004 08:09PM
Curt Purdy (purdy tecman com)
Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> > I'd say that's because you changed the filetype; pif files simply
> > contain information on how to handle a DOS executable; they aren't a
> > program themselves. All you did was make it get confused and kill
> > itself.
>
> Yeah, but how long is it now since we've been telling programmers
> "don't trust user-supplied data"?? (Hmmmm -- does it also fail on
> W2K3??)

No, in W2K3 you get "Cannot query the properties for this program. There may
not be enough memory available. blah blah" as opposed to 100% cpu in 2K.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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