Holy mackerel! Instances of this bug date back to 1999! http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c5946bf40f227058/7bd7b5d66a4e5aff --Pukhraj On 12/21/06, Alexander Sotirov <asotirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
3APA3A wrote: > Killer{R} assumes the problem is in strcpy(), because it should not be > used for overlapping buffers, but at least ANSI implementation of strcpy > from Visual C should be safe in this very situation (copying to lower > addresses). May be code is different for Windows XP or vulnerability is > later in code. We discovered this bug some time ago and were preparing an advisory when it was publicly disclosed. Since the exploit is already public, here's my analysis of the vulnerability: http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/csrss-harderror.html It's a double free bug that leads to arbitrary code execution in the CSRSS process. Alex _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/