Microsoft has issued a new program to track a graphics flaw 2

[2ffat]

See

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5366314.html?tag=adnews

for more info.

James P. Cottingham
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^{To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units.}

 

[vop]

EXCERPTS:

"The JPEG processing flaw enables a program hidden in an image file to execute on a victim's system."


"The software giant has a [highlight]full list of affected applications [/highlight]in the advisory on its Web site. [highlight]Windows XP Service Pack 2[/highlight], which is still being distributed to many customers' computers, [highlight]is not vulnerable to the flaw[/highlight]."


"Windows users could fall prey to an attack just by visiting a Web site that has affected images."



Vince
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[petermeachem]

Why in the world would anyone write code to display a picture that could execute a programme. MS must have completely lost the plot.

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[fumei]

Why? Because they can. Here is reality mirroring fiction. In the novel "Snow Crash", this is exactly the plot. A bitmap image (and jpg are bitmaps), when viewed, runs a viral type of program.

Strange indeed.

Gerry

 

[sleipnir214]

Far be if from me of all people do defend the company's software engineering practices, but I don't think this is a Mi[¢]ro$oft "feature" gone awry. The article compares this problem to a buffer overflow problem found last month in the PNG libraries, so I assume we're seeing another buffer overflow flaw.


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[jbrackett]

VMyths.com has a good article making just that point at:

http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=95&page=3

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