Microsoft: WMF flaw not an intentional back door (微软:Windows图元文件格式缺点不是故意的后门)
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Its security group published a detailed explanation of how the vulnerability was introduced
(微软的安全组公布了一个详细的说明关于如何介绍这个弱点)
News Story by Robert McMillan
(新闻发布人:罗伯特.麦克米伦)
JANUARY 16, 2006
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"There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional," wrote Stephen Toulouse, security program manager at Microsoft's security response center. "That speculation is wrong."
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Toulouse's comment, posted late Friday, came after security researcher Steve Gibson speculated that Microsoft had intentionally included a known vulnerability in a graphics rendering component of its operating system.
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"The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn is that this was a deliberate back door put into all of Microsoft's recent editions of Windows," wrote Gibson, founder and president of Gibson Research Corp., in a posting to his Web site last week. "Why it was put in and who knew about it, and what they were expected to use it for ... we'll never know."
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Toulouse said that Microsoft has been fielding customer questions on this topic, many of which he assumed to have been triggered by Gibson's post. "We had been looking into detailing the history anyway, and some customer questions drove the idea to write it up," he wrote in an e-mail interview. "We just wanted to make sure people had the history."
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The vulnerability in question concerns the way that Windows processes WMF graphics files, which are used by computer-aided design programs. In the 1990s, Microsoft added a function to Windows, called SetAbortProc, that is used in processing these files. Because of a design error in the function, it can be used by hackers to take control of a Windows computer, Microsoft said. Microsoft fixed the error in a Windows patch, MS06-001, released earlier this month.
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Gibson had previously argued that because the SetAbortProc function could not be triggered by a correctly formed WMF file, it served no legitimate purpose, a claim that Toulouse disputed in his posting. In an interview, Gibson conceded that he had been in error on that point. "I was wrong about this," he said. "It is more complex than that, exactly as [Toulouse] explained in his posting."
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Still, Gibson stood by his previous conclusion, arguing that Microsoft appeared to have intentionally changed the SetAbortProc function around the time of Windows NT to make systems vulnerable to the coding error. "The best way to characterize this is, it's intentionally designed code which, without question, enables backdoor functionality," he said.
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Toulouse declined to comment on this claim, but in his blog posting, he wrote that it is more difficult to exploit the vulnerability in the Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems.
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Security researchers contacted by IDG News Service were skeptical of Gibson's theory. If Microsoft truly wanted to add a back door to Windows, there are better ways the company could have done it, said Cesar Cerrudo, CEO of security research firm Argeniss in Parana, Argentina. "I don't think Microsoft would use that kind of back door," he said via instant message. "They don't need to do that, they could just build an exploit for some unfixed remote vulnerability on Windows."
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Gibson said that although he has no proof of Microsoft's motives, he believes that such a back door could have been created without malicious intent -- perhaps as a way for Microsoft to provide assistance to users, for example. "It would be a way for Microsoft to help people who had shut their computers down, securitywise," he said.
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