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

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

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.)