RE: Re: [ GLSA 200601-09 ]Wine:Windows MetafileSETABORTPROC vulnerability

["Peter Ferrie" <pferrie () symantec com>]

> > It's insecure-by-design, but it's working exactly as written.
> > It's been in there for _15_ years, and ported to every version of Windows.
> > Windows 3.0 supports it. :-/
>
> I'm still having a bit of trouble following Gibson's explanation of how the
> WMF flaw works, but it's my impression he says it does *not* operate
> according to spec. And yet Wine is vulnerable. Am I wrong?

Steve is wrong.  Wine was (I believe that a patch was released) vulnerable
because the function was documented exactly as it behaves, and they coded to that.
 
8^) p.
 
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