Re: FAX virus

["M.B.Jr." <marcio.barbado () gmail com>]

Hi,

On Nov 21, 2007 9:56 AM, THORNTON Simon <Simon.THORNTON () swift com> wrote:
> a G3 Fax (CCITT T.4)
> transmission uses a modified form of TIFF file for each page image it
> sends.

digital standard machines you mean, I suppose;
and maybe the TIFF format would be a potential vector;

see,
libtiff itself offers some ways to crash the rendering process:

http://secunia.com/advisories/15320/

and

http://secunia.com/advisories/21304/


guess it could be done, yes.






-- 
Marcio Barbado, Jr.

"In fact, companies that innovate on top of open standards are
advantaged because resources are freed up for higher-value work and
because market opportunities expand as the standards proliferate."
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Vice President Worldwide Linux and Open Source, IBM

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