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That's not why Gibson thought it was a back door. The back door part comes in when you realize that the SetAbortProc functionality only works in a WMF when you explicitly (and incorrectly) set the content size to 1.

BTW, fix your link, please.
Regards,

-scott anderson

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New Link fixed.
Actually, I think MS and Gibson are talking past each other. This MS guy is asserting that Gibson is basically wrong to think of it as a backdoor. OTOH, Gibson seems to have found a genuine bug in the parsing of a WMF, if an incorrect length of 1 can trigger that behaviour. It'd be interesting to see his counter-response (he hasn't posted one yet).

Wade.
"Insert crowbar. Apply force."
     Steve Gibson: "WMF flaw was a deliberate back door". - (Andrew Grygus) - (30)
         He needs to adjust his tinfoil IMHO -NT - (altmann) - (9)
             He's got a pretty good case - (bepatient) - (8)
                 Yup - (broomberg)
                 Is there more in it that what was in the transcript? - (altmann) - (3)
                     Where'd you find a transcript? - (jb4) - (2)
                         On GRC - (Another Scott)
                         Podcast is just an MP3 -NT - (drewk)
                 A guy over at SysInternals is said to be . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                     Sysinternals verdict: Not a back door - (altmann) - (1)
                         Just stupidity and incompetence, eh? SOP for M$. -NT - (n3jja)
         Seems very unlikely to me - (JayMehaffey) - (13)
             But thats just as bad - (bepatient) - (5)
                 Do I unnderstand this right? - (drewk) - (3)
                     did $MS understand multithreading when they wrote it? -NT - (boxley)
                     It is part of that - (JayMehaffey)
                     No. - (broomberg)
                 I would say not quite as bad - (JayMehaffey)
             Microsoft have an explanation. - (static) - (6)
                 Artful Dodging - (admin) - (1)
                     Link fixed. - (static)
                 I like how that "blog" doesn't allow comments, too. -NT - (admin)
                 If it's brought forward from legacy stuff . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
                     Dang. Beat me to it. That was my first thought. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1)
                         No default program for WMF = No "critical" vulnerability -NT - (altmann)
         Interesting "analysis" / Guess-of-motives - (Ashton) - (5)
             Shields up is a waste of time. - (pwhysall) - (4)
                 Elitist smugness - (Ashton) - (3)
                     Whatever, Ash. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                         Sorry Ash, but Peter is right here. -NT - (inthane-chan)
                         I acknowledge those valld criticisms. - (Ashton)

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