Re: newest category of security bugs considered elite ?

[Don Bailey <don.bailey () gmail com>]

Lately, it seems that the old has become new :)

D

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Nick FitzGerald
<nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> Dan Kaminsky wrote:
>
> > I really like the hash length declaration bugs, where the client can
> > tell the server how many bytes of a hash need to be validated.  (Yep,
> > you just say "one byte is plenty")
> >
> > SNMPv3 and XML-DSIG both fell to this, catastrophically.
>
> I thought Georgi asked for the newest class of elite vulns?
>
> Does (at least) ten years old count as new?
>
>   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-072.mspx
>
> And against Win9x count as elite?   8-)
>
> FWIW, MS00-072 was fairly widely exploited in the wild by at least the
> Opaserv (aka Opasoft) family of worms, though not until a couple (?) of
> years after the bulletin's release.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>
>
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