[Esd-l] Modifying the sanitizer to scan for INCLUDETEXT fields

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Thu Sep 26 21:18:01 PDT 2002


On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> John:
> 
> I've modified my own sanitizer to scan Word files for INCLUDETEXT
> fields in Word documents. Given Microsoft's non-response to this
> gaping hole, you might want to as well.
> 
> --Brett Glass

This is the "steal-a-file" vulnerability?

Do you have a patch? Or is there a reference to the details of the
exploit that you could provide?

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