[IP] Best. Vista. exploit. ever!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ethan Ackerman <eackerma@u.washington.edu>
Date: February 9, 2007 12:07:51 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Best. Vista. exploit. ever!

Greetings Dave,

The SANS blog has a nice summary of an innovative exploit in MS
Vista's speech recognition implementation - a malicious audio file can
be used to give user-level control.  It does so not in the usual
buffer overflow or mileading header corruptions, but by actual voice
recognition of spoken scripting commands.

Playing a sound file featuring spoken commands to open a malicious  
website

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2148 - including a MSFT  
confirmation.
(als written up on zdNet - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/? 
p=420&tag=nl.e589  )


I wonder what William Gibson would have to say about oral viruses?


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