[Full-disclosure] annoying bug in Windows XP

[Jerome Athias]

Hi,

maybe something similar to this:

http://seclists.org/lists/vuln-dev/2005/Feb/0007.html

Frank Dietrich wrote:

>Hi to all readers,
>
>this day I found a annoying misbehavior in Windows XP professional
>with SP2. 
>
>I had a directory with some Java sources (*.java) and some backup
>files (*.jav). Because I din't longer need the backup files I would
>delete them with 'del *.jav'. But this command also delete all the
>source files. #§%*. The last backup was 4 hours ago. :-/
>
>So I tried what happen and the result is the command above checks
>only the first three chars from the extension (DOS is alive).
>
>Here is how you can reproduce it:
>
>mkdir testbug
>cd testbug
>rem.>file1.jav
>rem.>file2.java
>rem.>file3.javas
>del *.jav
>
>All three files are deleted. Is this a known bug or a unknown feature?
>
>Frank
>  
>
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