On 6/24/2015 8:55 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote:
On 6/24/2015 7:02 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
And how does writing unmangled data to disk expose anybody to
anything? I've never heard of an exploit where writing an evilly
crafted bit-pattern to disk causes a any sort of problem.
Unless that code is executed at boot. Mangling would at least prevent it
from executing.
Or it's on Windows. It's pretty easy to trick Windows into running
some code somewhere. But you can often disrupt that by simply renaming
the file to have no extension.
ISTR that windows may look into the file to see if it can 'guess' the
appropriate application, so dropping the extension may not be
sufficient. But maybe they've changed that as my windows experience
doesn't run much past XP.
Emile
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