Full Disclosure: Re: WinXP IE .HLP file 0day

[Maurycy Prodeus <mailing-list () isec pl>]

> There are loads of known vulns in winhlp32.exe, particularly in the
> decompression routines.  That's why it was removed from Vista, and why
> .hlp files are considered to be dangerous file formats.
.HLP == executable

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinHelp :
"A rather security critical feature is that one can also include a DLL
file containing custom code and associating it with WinHelp topics.
Effectively this makes .HLP files equivalent to executables."

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