Bugtraq: Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> > I'd say that's because you changed the filetype; pif files simply
> > contain information on how to handle a DOS executable; they aren't a
> > program themselves. All you did was make it get confused and kill
> > itself.
> Yeah, but how long is it now since we've been telling programmers
> "don't trust user-supplied data"??  (Hmmmm -- does it also fail on
> W2K3??)
No, in W2K3 you get "Cannot query the properties for this program. There may
not be enough memory available. blah blah" as opposed to 100% cpu in 2K.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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