[windows2000] RES: Re: Office Security Alert
- From: "Eduardo Freitas" <eduardofreitas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:06:07 -0300
Not really... Check out most vulnerabilities found on bugtraq...
Most of them were, and still are buffer overflown...
Regards,
Eduardo Herrmann de Freitas
Indústrias Reunidas Ibéria S/A
Suporte Técnico/Administração de Sistemas
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De: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Em nome de Jim.Walls@xxxxxxx
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 3 de setembro de 2003 17:56
Para: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assunto: [windows2000] Re: Office Security Alert
Greg Reese posted (in tiny part):
> As detailed in Microsoft's security bulletin, a malicious user
> could create a document with a VBA application that's designed
> to overflow the buffer--the chunk of memory that's allocated
> to a program--and then run other code.
What is it about Microsoft and buffer overflows? It seems that the vast
majority of these security vulnerabilities make use of buffer overflows.
It's just not that hard to write code that does not have that problem!
Good grief!
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