[mso] Re: Microsoft Word flaw may allow file theft
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 00:03:13 -0400
Hmmm...have we started a family feud among the Chapmans? LOL
One says it's a "pretty serious hole", while the other says "This is
not so much as a security hole, as everyone is SUDDENLY talking
about"....sooo, who do we believe?...Ms Dian or "Greggie"?
Greggie? ROFL
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Greg Chapman
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:52 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Microsoft Word flaw may allow file theft
Well, Woody has been reporting this publicly for a couple weeks now. It
is a
pretty serious hole and the problem with it is what the black hats will
develop to take advantage of it, not the flaw itself. The thing that
ticks
me most about it, though, is that I (and Dian was there to hear it) told
MS
Word engineers that something like this was going to show up and that it
would allow hackers to even steal 'signed' credentials. So when I
digitally
sign a Word template for distribution and the safety tag is there that
says
"Greggie's signature is on this template, do you trust him?" someone
else
can steal that sig and use it to pass unsage code. Suddenly, those keyed
signatures are valueless and we're right back where we started on this
Word
macro virus problem.
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