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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. Article title is wrong by biraneto2 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The WMF flaw IS a backdoor. It's just not INTENTIONAL.

  2. Am I the only one who cringed when they read.... by achesterase · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the word scientificAL?