RE: New article on SecurityFocus

["Navroz Shariff" <nshariff () americanbible org>]

I definitely agree with Thor.

Everyone had made the WMF exploit more vulnerable in theory then in
practice. May be some IT staff are axious for something big to come
out...it adds excitement to life :-)

Don't worry...Rootkits such as the proof of concept 'Shadow Walker' will
soon arrive and add some spice to IT life.

-Nav

-----Original Message-----
From: Thor (Hammer of God) [mailto:thor () hammerofgod com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 5:00 PM
To: Erin Carroll; pen-test () securityfocus com
Cc: Larry Seltzer; focus-ms () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: New article on SecurityFocus

> A few hundred million Windows XP machines lay vulnerable on the Web 
> today, a week after a zero-day exploit was discovered. Meanwhile, new 
> approaches and ideas from the academic world - that focus exclusively 
> on children - may give us hope for the future after all.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/377

Sorry, but it's not going to happen.  Yes, it is a serious
vulnerability, but there will be no Armageddon here.  Comparing this to
the RPC vulnerability (which had worm potential) is specious.

Overall, I think community's coverage of wmf has been delivered with an
ounce of perception, and a pound of obscurity.  It's almost as if people
*want* it to be worse than it is.  I'm not surprised, of course.  But
regardless,  my call is that we'll see a little activity here and there,
the patch will come out, most will install it (or have it installed
automatically) and the whole issue will fade away.  But that's all.

We'll know for sure shortly, either way.

t

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