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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 04:50:38 +0400 (MSD)
From: Solar Designer <solar@...se.com>
To: announce@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: OW-002-netscape-jpeg

Hi,

I've just published a security advisory entitled "JPEG COM Marker
Processing Vulnerability in Netscape Browsers".  It is available at
the usual location:

	http://www.openwall.com/advisories/

and is on its way to Bugtraq.

In addition to explaining this particular vulnerability and ways to
fix it, the advisory presents a fairly generic approach to exploiting
writes beyond the end of allocated heap memory.  My goals were to
prove that file parsers used on data files from untrusted sources are
security-critical, to show the danger of integer overflows, and to
present the generic approach to exploiting "heap-based overflows".

Signed,
Solar Designer

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