Re: Security Bug in MSVC

[Stan Bubrouski <stan.bubrouski () gmail com>]

On 1/19/06, redsand <redsand () redsand net> wrote:
> i think the author of this advisory is desperate for advisories or
> attention.

Well maybe the guy was just misled because Microsoft led him to
believe it was something exciting?  Either way it seems like anyone
could open a project file in notepad and insert/modify anything they
want in there.  I mean its not like we've ever been able to trust
projects or Makefiles/configures anyways.

> either way he needs to open a disassembler and work on something else.

-sb

> Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Morning Wood wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > extract, and open hello.dsw
> > > click "batch build, build" or "rebuild all"
> > > code will execute ( calc.exe and notepad.exe used as an example )
> >
> > What's the point of building a bunch of sources unless
> > 1. you trust their author, or
> > 2. you have made sure their is nothing malicious there?
> >
> > When you build an executable from untrusted sources, you get an untrusted
> > executable. Either you run it and you're screwed anyway, or you don't run
> > it and you wasted your time building it.
> >
> > (Indeed, there are some marginal cases like when you want to build an
> > executable file intended to run on someone else's computer...)
> >
> > --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
> > "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
> >
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