Re: RE: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

[InfoSecBOFH <infosecbofh () gmail com>]

Steve Gibson is a retard.  Actually, Steve Gibson is less than a
retard.  What kind of so called expert reccomends a third party patch?

Oh wait.. the same expert that bitched about a fantasy sockets issue....


On 1/4/06, Mario Contestabile <marioc () computer org> wrote:
> But come on..Steve Gibson's latest "Security Now" podcast claims he has
> 'looked it over, and it looks good' ...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Shostack [mailto:adam () homeport org]
> Sent: January 3, 2006 5:37 PM
> To: Gadi Evron
> Cc: bugtraq () securityfocus com; full-disclosure () lists grok org uk; FunSec
> [List]
> Subject: Re: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification
>
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:28:40AM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:
> | The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in Windows.
> | So far no problems have been observed by anyone using this patch. You
>
> This is incorrect.  Michael Hennessy has reported problems on the
> patch-management mailing list:
>
> > I took the SANS advice and de-registered the dll, and also installed
> > Ilfak Guilfanov's "temporary patch" on 1 win2k machine and 6 XP
> > machines today.
> >
> > All fine except for one of the XP machines - wouldn't run IE without
> > gpf'ing until I uninstalled the patch - but leaving the dll
> > de-registered didn't seem to cause any grief anywhere, so far.
> >
> > FWIW, the iexplore crashes left this in the event log:
> >
> > Event ID 4097, source : drwatson The application, C:\Program
> > Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe, generated an application error
> > The error occurred on 01/02/2006 @ 14:49:49.709 The exception
> > generated was c0000005 at address 0068E3BA (<nosymbols>)
> >
> > I suspect that the patch conflicts with an application that is
> > specific to this machine.
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=patchmanagement&m=113624877814460&w=2
>
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