bugtraq - Re: EEYE: Microsoft ASN.1 Library Length Overflow Heap Corruption

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Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:14:01 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: "Timothy J.Miller" <cerebus@...kheads.org>
Cc: BUGTRAQ@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: EEYE: Microsoft ASN.1 Library Length Overflow Heap Corruption

Timothy J.Miller wrote:

> Is anyone else wondering why MS didn't fix this with the last round of 
> ASN.1 decoding overflow vulnerabilities (remember the SNMP hole)?  It's 
> basically the same problem.

Not really.  AFAIK, they haven't fixed an equivalent to the xdr_array()
integer overflow in the NSVC run-time library, either.  (I was rather
surprised to see an HP-UX advisory on this issue a couple of weeks ago,
though.)