Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows

[Lawrence Paul MacIntyre <macintyrelp () ornl gov>]

Daylight come and me wanna go home...

This one time, at band camp, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic
> security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working
> all night on a drink of rum.  It's true.  Really.
>  
> t
>
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roland Kuhn [mailto:rkuhn () e18 physik tu-muenchen de]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM
> > To: Lamont Granquist
> > Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.Dik () Sun COM; Gadi Evron; pdp
> > (architect); bugtraq () securityfocus com; full-
> > disclosure () lists grok org uk
> > Subject: Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows
> >
> > On 25 Sep 2007, at 00:57, Lamont Granquist wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > The exploit is not made public by its use.  The exploit is not even
> > > made public by (back-channel) sharing amongst the hacker/cracker
> > > community. The exploit is only made public if detected or the
> > > vulnerability is disclosed.  Until detected/disclosed the hacker/
> > > cracker can use their 31337 0day spl01tz to break into whichever
> > > vulnerable machines they like. 0day exploits are valuable because
> > >       
> the
>   
> > > opposition is ignorant of them.
> > >
> > > Posting exploits to BUGTRAQ, however, inherently makes them not
> > > 0day...
> > >       
> > And my ignorant self thought until this thread that the "0" in the
> >     
> term
>   
> > referred to the number of days of head start granted to the vendor.
> > Silly me. Because that would make all vulnerabilities published
> >     
> without
>   
> > prior warning to the vendor a "0day"...
> >
> > Roland (who seems to remember that this was once the meaning of this
> > term)
> >     


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  Lawrence MacIntyre   865.574.8696   macintyrelp () ornl gov
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