[X4U] Major Graphics flaw

Eugene Lee list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Fri Sep 17 07:32:42 PDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:59:33AM -0700, Craig wrote:
: On Sep 17, 2004, at 3:04 AM, Eugene Lee wrote:
: >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:05:54AM +0200, Paul Moortgat wrote:
: >:
: >: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5366314.html
: >
: >Old news.  Basically, there's a bug in way Windoze reads JPEGs that
: >allows malicious code to get executed.
: 
: Not that old, they just announced it Tuesday. Maybe you're thinking the 
: same thing I did when I read it in the news, I confused it with last 
: month's png vulnerability
[...]

Nope, I meant the JPEG vulnerability.  Heard about several days ago,
laughed hard for a day and teased my Windoze colleagues to my heart's
content, then went back to business.


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Eugene Lee
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