Sans is talking about the unofficial patch for the WMF vulnerability. One of their handlers has helped with it to extend it to work on XP SP 1 and Windows 2000. They’ve also looked at the patch thoroughly and it sounds as though it’s very well done.
Tag: Tom Liston
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Update on Long registry entries bug
Incidents.org has an update on yesterdays story of very long registry entries not being visible in most registry tools (regedit among others.) They have an updated list of what does and does not read these long keys. They’ve alluded to nasties in the wild that are already taking advantage of this and have confirmed that the length is greater than 254 characters. On handler has written a program to scan the registry for these stealth entries