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Win Media Player hole surrenders your machine | |
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| Time: 08:20 EST/13:20 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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The Windows Media Player ASX (Active Stream Redirector) processor contains an unchecked buffer susceptible to an overrun which could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a machine with the victim's level of permission, a Microsoft security bulletin warns. Media Player 6.4 and 7.0 are affected; and earlier, currently-unsupported versions 'may or may not be,' the company says. Developing an exploit would require the cobbling together of a malicious file which could be circulated via e-mail or linked on a malicious Web site. All that remains is to entice the unlucky victim to open it. Naming it sororitysuck.asx ought to do the trick here, we reckon. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/24/2001 10:11:00 AM |
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I wonder if they run such a sensational story every time a new version of BIND comes out with its requisite root-gaining exploit (since just about every major release of BIND has had a major root exploit in it). Probably not. ** Insert standard Register FoS comment here ** |
| #2 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/24/2001 8:47:00 PM |
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| #3 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/24/2001 8:48:00 PM |
| Meaning, the Register is Full Of... |
| #4 By 20 (Unknown) at 5/24/2001 11:12:00 PM |
| #6: Corporate IT is a whole different ballgame. When you have to upgrade and support 1000 desktops, you're not too quick to change since changing usually involves months of preparation to get images ready for mass deploy and redeployment (when the end users screw up their machines) and even training for end users, not to mention the couple days or weeks it takes to deploy all the desktops. It's not a small deal. |
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