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Alan Olsen
21/01/03, 08:45
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On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:12, Mark Litchfield wrote:
> Renaming the file extension to TTF (True Type Font) also causes an instan=
t
> reboot on Win2k, although still does not work on .NET Server (don't have =
XP
> in house to test on at the minute).

Something that the hackers (thankfully) have seem to forgotten.=20

Fonts under Windows are dlls. (Or at least treated like them.)

At least that is what I remember. I have given up programming on the
beast.


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <HalVar@gmx.de>
> To: "Mark Litchfield" <mark@ngssoftware.com>
> Cc: <aconnell@xtra.co.nz>; <vulndiscuss@vulnwatch.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [VulnDiscuss] Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to resta=
rt.
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> > > Tested on .NET Enterprise server - no restart.
> >
> > Tested on Win2k Server - BSOD. Nice bug.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Halvar
> >
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