[Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows

[Lawrence Paul MacIntyre]

Daylight come and me wanna go home...

This one time, at band camp, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic
> security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working
> all night on a drink of rum.  It's true.  Really.
>  
> t
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roland Kuhn [mailto:rkuhn at e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM
>> To: Lamont Granquist
>> Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.Dik at Sun.COM; Gadi Evron; pdp
>> (architect); bugtraq at securityfocus.com; full-
>> disclosure at lists.grok.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows
>>
>> On 25 Sep 2007, at 00:57, Lamont Granquist wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The exploit is not made public by its use.  The exploit is not even
>>> made public by (back-channel) sharing amongst the hacker/cracker
>>> community. The exploit is only made public if detected or the
>>> vulnerability is disclosed.  Until detected/disclosed the hacker/
>>> cracker can use their 31337 0day spl01tz to break into whichever
>>> vulnerable machines they like. 0day exploits are valuable because
>>>       
> the
>   
>>> opposition is ignorant of them.
>>>
>>> Posting exploits to BUGTRAQ, however, inherently makes them not
>>> 0day...
>>>       
>> And my ignorant self thought until this thread that the "0" in the
>>     
> term
>   
>> referred to the number of days of head start granted to the vendor.
>> Silly me. Because that would make all vulnerabilities published
>>     
> without
>   
>> prior warning to the vendor a "0day"...
>>
>> Roland (who seems to remember that this was once the meaning of this
>> term)
>>     


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  Lawrence MacIntyre   865.574.8696   macintyrelp at ornl.gov
                Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cyber Security and Information Infrastructure Research Group

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