Re: Alert: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 - Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) Could Allow Code Execution (833987)

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Date:         Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:15:55 +1000
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

> ... Buffer Overrun in JPEG Processing (GDI+) ...

Hmm ...

<rant>
This is scary. Why do I believe it's so scary ? Because MS advises
(requires?) developers who redist GDIPlus.dll to place it in the app's own
folder so as to avoid DLL hell. Here's a quote from gdi+'s redist.txt "For
[Windows versions other then XP] install gdiplus.dll into the private
directory of the application not into the system directory"

Ok, so I do this with my apps (as I suspect many other app developers do).
This of course means that there will be multiple copies of gdiplus.dll on
end user's PCs, in many directories, and WU/AU/OU won't update them !
(unless MS adds a 'search your whole harddrive for bad versions' function).
Leading to many vulernabile apps.

So the developers of all these apps (such as myself) that use GDIPlus.dll
now have to contact all our users telling them of a new update, which we
can't even yet make, as MS has not made a new version of gdiplus.dll
available for redist !
</rant>

To MS: Please make WU/AU/OU search a user's whole harddrive(s) for copies
of gdiplus.dll, and then do some nice prompting before replacing them.
And also please make a new redist of gdiplus.dll available for download
(presumably through the platformsdk section of msdn.microsoft.com) ASAP

Louis Solomon
www.steelbytes.com

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