Re: AOL YGP Picture Editor YGPPicEdit.dll Multiple Buffer Overflows

[reepex <reepex () gmail com>]

I believe I have contributed greatly to the security community with my post
here. Not only have I denied another 0x41414141 hacker but I have also made
Valdis have to backtrack on his ( as usual) stupid post. I believe Valdis
and Billy O Reilly have alot in common. ( "
"I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans
should be concerned about this…What do you want me to do, go over and kiss
the camera?" ).

On Dec 27, 2007 9:05 AM, Elazar Broad <elazarb () earthlink net> wrote:

> After some more analysis by Carsten Eiram @ Secunia, this is NOT
> exploitable. I would like to apologize for the hasty post. SecurityFocus,
> please update bid 27026 to reflect the fact that at most, this can just
> crash the browser.
>
> Elazar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> > Sent: Dec 26, 2007 1:28 AM
> > To: reepex <reepex () gmail com>
> > Cc: Elazar Broad <elazarb () earthlink net>,
> full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] AOL YGP Picture Editor YGPPicEdit.dllMultiple Buffer Overflows
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:53:29 CST, reepex said:
> >
> > > How does a bunch of 'A's prove something is exploitable?
> >
> > If a bunch of A's causes the EIP to end up as x'41414141', it's 95% of
> the
> > way to being an exploit.  If it gets you some *other* crash, it's
> probably
> > at least 30% to 40% of the way to an exploit.
> >
> > Go back and read the analysis of the NTP buffer overflow from a number of
> years
> > back.  Truly a classic - they managed to leverage a *one byte* overflow
> into
> > a complete and total rooting of the box.
>
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