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MS Excel exploit on auction

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 12, 2005 @02:40AM from the brave-new-world dept.

geo_2677 writes "Someone had put up for auction on eBay the details of an exploit in Microsoft Excel according to a recent article on Securityfocus. According to the article Microsoft has confirmed that this vulnerability exists, but in the meantime the original listing on eBay has been pulled. " The now pulled auction, but it does appear that Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability in an eweek article.

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Re:A honest days pay for an honest days work by one_bad_rover · 2005-12-12 05:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yeah, cause ebay has always been completely fair in all their other dealings... Youre forgetting they dont care about the seller or the buyer, they care about collecting fees, and I for one, hope that Google Base "http://base.google.com/" gets online and grows enough to drive them into obscurity.