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RE: 0day: PDF pwns Windows
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:39:24 -0700
For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working all night on a drink of rum. It's true. Really. t
-----Original Message----- From: Roland Kuhn [mailto:rkuhn () e18 physik tu-muenchen de] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM To: Lamont Granquist Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.Dik () Sun COM; Gadi Evron; pdp (architect); bugtraq () securityfocus com; full- disclosure () lists grok org uk Subject: Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows On 25 Sep 2007, at 00:57, Lamont Granquist wrote:The exploit is not made public by its use. The exploit is not even made public by (back-channel) sharing amongst the hacker/cracker community. The exploit is only made public if detected or the vulnerability is disclosed. Until detected/disclosed the hacker/ cracker can use their 31337 0day spl01tz to break into whichever vulnerable machines they like. 0day exploits are valuable because
the
opposition is ignorant of them. Posting exploits to BUGTRAQ, however, inherently makes them not 0day...And my ignorant self thought until this thread that the "0" in the
term
referred to the number of days of head start granted to the vendor. Silly me. Because that would make all vulnerabilities published
without
prior warning to the vendor a "0day"... Roland (who seems to remember that this was once the meaning of this term)
Current thread:
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows, (continued)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows bugtraq (Sep 21)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows coderman (Sep 21)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Casper . Dik (Sep 21)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows J. Oquendo (Sep 21)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Crispin Cowan (Sep 24)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Chad Perrin (Sep 24)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Crispin Cowan (Sep 24)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows J. Oquendo (Sep 25)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Lamont Granquist (Sep 25)
- Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Roland Kuhn (Sep 25)
- RE: 0day: PDF pwns Windows Thor (Hammer of God) (Sep 25)
- defining 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Brian Loe (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Brian Loe (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Adrian Griffis (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Brian Loe (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Andrew Weaver (Sep 25)
- RE: defining 0day David Gillett (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Charles Miller (Sep 25)
- Re: defining 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 25)