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Bad behaviour Posted by Mikko @ 00:49 GMT

We are aware that a new exploit for the WMF vulnerability has been published. This one is much more advanced than the old one, and much more dangerous.

It enables clueless newcomers to easily craft highly variable and hard-to-detect variations of image files. Images that take over computers when viewed. And do this on all common Windows platforms. With no vendor patch for the vulnerability available. Meaning that there are hundreds of millions of vulnerable computers in the net right now.

Making such tools publicly available when there's no vendor patch available is irresponsible. Plain and simply irresponsible. Everybody associated in making and publishing the exploit knows this. And they should know better. Moore, A.S, San and FrSIRT: you should know better.