_JPEG_ exploit?!

Wed Sep 15 13:47:12 PDT 2004

Quoting Jim Hickstein (jxh at jxh.com):

> This is a dandy one:
> 
> <http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9553197>
> 
> What are they _smoking_ up there?
> 
> Remember when "catching viruses by reading email" was preposterous, and a
> prima facie hoax?  They fixed that....

I'll give you 100:1 odds that it's not _really_ a JPEG exploit:  If it
follows the usual pattern, this is a Microsoft-doesn't-do-MIME-competently 
exploit.  

The Microsoft page, as usual, says nothing at all about the vulnerability's 
mechanism.  

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Rick Moen
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