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A vulnerability in Notepad++ was found this month, capable of executing
arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The software flaw is due to a
boundary error in a third party library used by Notepad++.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially
crafted Ruby source file (with the .rb extension), which could cause a
stack-based buffer overflow.
This vulnerability is rated by Secunia as highly critical because an
attacker could use this flaw to gain access to a vulnerable system.
An update has been released for this vulnerability, and users are
encouraged to patch their systems.
For more information:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25245/
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Dell Dimension 8400
Disk C: 118 GB Available, 145 GB Total
3GB Memory
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Series GPU
Re: This Just In
No not the "Stacked based buffer overflow" hack!Slappy Da Clown wrote: which could cause a stack-based buffer overflow.