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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:36:14 -0800
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Steve suggests:
> An addition to the "safe" list: if you want to send a Word document to
> someone, save it in .RTF format. You'll keep essentially all of the
> formatting information, so it will still be "pretty", but will also be
> incapable of transporting macro viri.

Except that a recent issue of the Risks digest pointed out that apparently
much of Microsoft's RTF parsing code does not do any bounds checking, so RTF
documents could potentially be used in some kind of buffer overrun attack.

G.

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