Re: Microsoft FTP Client Multiple Bufferoverflow Vulnerability

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:46:06 +0300, 3APA3A said:
In order to exploit this vulnerability you need to force victim to run
attacker-supplied BAT file. It's like forcing user to run
attacker-supplied .sh script under Unix.

And oddly enough, the *very next mail* from Bugtraq said:

FreeBSD-SA-07:10.gtar Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project

Topic: gtar directory traversal vulnerability
...
III. Impact

An attacker who can convince an user to extract a specially crafted
archive can overwrite arbitrary files with the permissions of the user
running gtar. If that user is root, the attacker can overwrite any
file on the system.

Apparently, somebody at FreeBSD thinks "can be exploited if you trick the
user into doing something" is a valid attack vector.


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