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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: DarkPenguin on December 31, 2005, 03:27:20 pm

Title: Windows exploit in the wild
Post by: DarkPenguin on December 31, 2005, 03:27:20 pm

Don't know how much of an issue this really is but thought I'd mention it...

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.as...9&enterthread=y (http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=33&threadid=1768579&enterthread=y)

Title: Windows exploit in the wild
Post by: 61Dynamic on December 31, 2005, 11:10:37 pm

Not a huge problem at this moment perhaps but it won't take long for the scum of the internet to exploit it. Actually I have heard reports of it being exploited for spyware software already (via SpywareInfo).

MS's Security Buliten 912840 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx)
Info on it at SpywareInfo (http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/2005/dec30.php#wmfflaw)
Some possible work-arounds (http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/workaround-for-wmf-exploit.html) via SunbeltBlog