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Microsoft reveals DirectX 'critical' flaw
The flaw, which received Microsoft's highest severity rating, involves the way DirectX handles MIDI music files. A malformed MIDI file could overrun the buffer in DirectX, at which point extra software embedded in the file would be executed.
Exploiting the flaw would entail the creation of a maliciously malformed MIDI file, which vulnerable Windows users would have to be tricked into running, either through e-mail or a Web page.
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Abraxas
on July 24, 2003 6:08 AM |
Does 9.0b fix that? |
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Phantasm66
on July 24, 2003 7:24 AM |
I don't know (have not checked) but I would imagine that that would explain 9.0b 's sudden arrival I have certainly downloaded and installed 9.0b as soon as I [url=http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6 23]read about it here[/url]. |
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---agissi---
on July 24, 2003 11:27 PM |
Another bug 8) Do they ever check they're software for this kind of stuff?? Its posted [b]all the time[/b] |
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XtR-X
on July 25, 2003 2:31 AM |
I guess it's safe to say that we should all avoid MIDIs for a short while until the problem is completely solved.The scary thing is that we can trail off to a site that has embedded MIDI inside the HTML and we could be attacked by it. |
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TS | Thomas
on July 25, 2003 7:17 PM |
Yes, DirectX 9.0b fixes this. |
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