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RE: Did MS pull an Ilfak? (MS patch bindiff results) Jan 10 2006 09:39PM
Greg Wroblewski (Greg Wroblewski microsoft com)
The only attack vector we know about for Win9x, ME platforms is through
printing. I'm afraid that "fixing" that would break some functionality.

Greg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Polk [mailto:listuser.jav (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:21 AM
To: Brett Glass
Cc: bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Re: Did MS pull an Ilfak? (MS patch bindiff results)

Brett Glass wrote:

>Question: Is Ilfak's patch still needed for Windows 95, 98, SE and ME
>systems, for which Microsoft is refusing to provide a patch? To what
>extent are these systems vulnerable if not patched?
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>--Brett Glass
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Actually, Ilfak never tested his patch on a Win 9x machine. Steve
Gibson, however, plans to write a
patch for 95, 98, and ME if Microsoft doesn't.

JP

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