Critical Windows Flaw

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Colonel Ingus
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Critical Windows Flaw

Postby Colonel Ingus » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:14 pm

Yet another critical flaw in newer Windows based systems.

http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20040210.html

DAMN YOU AND YOUR EVIL EMPIRE GATES! DAMN YOU!
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Murgatroyd

Postby Murgatroyd » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:32 pm

That's a horrible coding mistake. If someone knew what they were doing, theoretically, they could force your computer to run a piece of code (hexidecimal) that wasn't even on your computer to begin with (if I understand this correctly) through using certain certification procedures. That is totally evil, and way too easy to do. All for a stupid coding oversight.. an oversight that could cause other problems such as memory leaks (recycling of memory of invalid size) and other hangs and crashes. Bah.
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Postby RCglider » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:54 pm

Oh, that's just being paranoid hehe.
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Postby Matt174e » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:57 pm

My windows XP won't even update since 3+ months ago!
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