tir, 2003-01-14 kl. 21:17 skrev Jason Tackaberry: > > How would an rfc822/2822 mail message do this? What sort of an > > attachment would do this? "Click on this Linux executable and you'll be > > born to heaven."
<snip> > Of course the above is completely hypothetical. But is that sort of > attack really that unreasonable? Difficult, yes, and a lot of very > specific conditions would have to be met. But probably not > unreasonable. We've seen more impressive things. It's absolutely not unreasonable, no and your line of reasoning is a real eye opener. I should have had more imagination. > my point was that "benign data" like images, video, > MP3s, or even email, can be used to exploit a vulnerability in the > software that reads it as input. Point taken. Thanks for taking the time and trouble, Jason. Much appreciated. Best, Tony -- Tony Earnshaw When all's said and done ... there's nothing left to say or do. e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.billy.demon.nl _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
