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WMF Flaw not a Backdoor

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the jumping-to-conclusions dept.

koro666 writes "In a blog post, Mark Russinovich from SysInternals responded to the allegations made by Steve Gibson labeling the flaw as an intentional backdoor. It seems that the hype was about Steve's discovery that the code would only be executed if the size of the metafile record was deliberately tampered with, which is not the case. The technical details are explained in his post."

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  1. Re:FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! by idonthack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doing a search for my full name, I come out with 1,040,000 hits. My brother got 1,710,000 and my cousin with a different last name got only 32,000. My cousin is probably more well known than my brother and I because he's in a band and his brother plays college football.
     
    Apparently Google results have more to do with the commonality of the first and last name more than anything else. Articles written about you probably help a little, though.

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