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Monday, February 16. 2004

Microsoft ASN.1 Vulnerability - the hackers are getting closer

ISS stated in their advisory:

Due to the nature of this vulnerability, reliable and successful remote exploitation is considered difficult.

No one seems to have informed the hackers of this fact. I've seen code that successfully crashes and reboots windows machines remotely using this vulnerability. I don't think they're too far from executing arbitrary code - which means taking over machines, and then writing a worm.

"Waiting for the worms to come".........

Posted by JaBbA in Security at 11:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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JaBbA's Hut

White Hat Liberal Geek Dad

Monday, February 16. 2004

Microsoft ASN.1 Vulnerability - the hackers are getting closer