RE: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Microsoft response

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/01/13/417431.aspx




-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks, Shane [mailto:SBrooks () orangelake com] 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 2:31 PM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: WMF vulnerability was a deliberate backdoor?


I've recently had my attention brought to a post from Steve Gibson in
the grc.com forums, which contains the following quote:

<snippet>
        The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that this
[setAbortProc procedure] 
was a deliberate backdoor put into all of Microsoft's recent editions of
Windows. </snippet>

full article here:
http://www.grc.com/x/news.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.news.feedback&item=6
0006

thoughts?


Shane



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