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MS Message Security Flaw Explained

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 12, 2003 @03:14AM from the the-fix-is-in-and-waddles dept.

Geoff Shively writes "Canadian security researcher Oliver Lavery published a fantastic paper on Win32 Message Vulnerabilities. The paper touches on a the Shatter problem that received much attention almost 1 year ago regarding the fundamental flaws in the Win32 API. Oliver's research demonstrates that the Shatter vulnerability is still very much in existence and quite a threat. Vendors need to wake up and work towards fixing this problem in their applications."

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Here we go again by The+Bungi · 2003-07-12 04:48 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Here's my response to that "article".
Leave it to Slashdot to try and wring every last drop of blood from anything that even remotely smells like a "vulnerability", right up there with JavaScript that changes my wallpaper at the behest of evil Romanian hackers - I've always wondered why all those Unix/Linux exploits I see in Bugtraq and SecurityFocus and RedHat advisories don't get so much publicity.