October 6th, 2004, 11:23 PM
Undies:
When the header is corrupted in a malicious way then what follows in the rest of the file is not a .jpg. It's a buffer overflow followed by the exploit code. Thus it isn't a .jpg......
October 6th, 2004, 11:03 PM
I'm pretty sure that this has been thought about and for some reason that I am too dim to come up with at this point they haven't done it....
OTOH, if it's this simple and they haven't thought...
October 6th, 2004, 09:56 PM
I suppose the point I was trying to make is that it matters not what the file extension is. If a non-executable file is malformed, deliberately or not, then it is not longer a file of the type it...
October 6th, 2004, 09:24 PM
In short.... No
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These files are "content" files. As such they are not executed but the contents are displayed by the associated program file.
As with the recent .jpg...