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Re: Fonts of fun


From: Piotr Bania <bania.piotr () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:35:52 +0100


Hi,

>...
>eEye's newsletter today said this about it:
>"Details of this flaw were first released today in conjunction with
>the Microsoft patch and within minutes, other researchers had reverse
>engineered the Microsoft patch and shared the details online, which
>means that this flaw may very well be used in an attack.  The attack
>vector of this flaw is similar to the WMF flaw, in that a user must
>visit a malicious website containing the malicious font file."
>...
>It's clear that Piotr did not "reverse engineer the
>patch". He'd obviously had the bug for some time
>...

Nothing more to say.

best regards,
Piotr Bania

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