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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 31 January 2007 | |
  
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When one of the listed applications attempts to open a file with a name containing formatting commands, for example %n%n%n%n%n%n%n%n%n%n%n.imovieproj, a crash occurs. A code execution exploit would be "difficult". The duo show they sill have a sense of humour by suggesting that those looking for a workaround or temporary solution should "Seek out Landon Fuller and he shall destroy all that is evil!" How Fuller and other members of the MoAB Fixes group will respond to that remains to be seen. For now, they are still busy investigating what appears to be a denial of service attack on Safari that was built into day 29's disclosure. It appears that a malformed JPEG2000 image embedded in the page causes Safari to stop responding. Apparently Firefox uses a different routine for displaying such images, as it is able to render the page without incident. The fact that today's disclosure is published on Finisterre's digitalmunition.com site rather than the project's usual home might be related to yesterday's 'attack'. Or it might just be a coincidence.{moscomment} |
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