The vuln before Christmas
Summary: Cisco Talos published a December 29, 2008 poem recounting its response to a Windows Media Player "Integer Overflow" posted to milw0rm on Christmas eve. After analysis in a debugger and IDA, the team concluded the issue was not a vulnerability: the real problem was control of four high-order bytes when a simple division quotient exceeds a DWORD.
Key Takeaway: A public exploit posting on a holiday forced the VRT to drop its plans and analyze the claim, and the finding was that the reported integer overflow was actually a division error where the quotient does not fit in a DWORD - a reminder that a published exploit does not establish a real vulnerability.
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