• Windows 7 crasher in the wild

    Posted on November 13, 2009 at 17:20 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    SANS Internet Storm Center reports that a guy by the name of Laurent Gaffie has posted a code sample that crashes Windows 7. The press has picked it up and branded it a “0day attack” which is literally true, but there’s much less there than meets the eye.

    At least at this point, the 0day can only freeze Windows 7. It can’t take over anything. But that makes it annoying, and potentially amusing to the kind of cretin who gets a kick out of freezing Windows 7 machines.

    A link to a server running this code could easily be embedded in a web page or email, pointing out to a server on the internet -  this exploit is not isolated to corporate networks doing file sharing.

    So if someone tells you that the sky is falling on Windows 7, you have my permission to yawn a bit.

    If somebody figures out a way to exploit the hole in SMB that this 0day uses, we’ll have a whole new ballgame. But for now it’s merely annoying.

     

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