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Vulnerability Development: Re: Windows Vista winsat.exe Integer Overflow

Re: Windows Vista winsat.exe Integer Overflow

From: <Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:33:07 -0400

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:39:36 PDT, "Thor (Hammer of God)" said:

> So, if you have someone who is going to run as administrator anyway,
> download the untrusted .exe, execute it, and then confirm the execution
> of the program without concern for what happens, we can't really fault
> the OS for that at this point in the game.

I wasn't faulting the OS - I was pointing out it's still a viable attack
vector, despite the OS's best efforts to stop it.

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Received on Apr 03 2008
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