Author: Peter Berger
Date: 16:50:19 06/28/04
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On June 28, 2004 at 18:51:35, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 28, 2004 at 18:20:32, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On June 28, 2004 at 15:19:13, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>I also consider to ask Leo to remove public versions of movei from his site >>>because they can crash if you give them illegal FEN or game that has more than >>>1000 plies and a virus may use it to attack the computer of people who use >>>movei. >>> >>>Uri >> >>I tried hard to think about a potential virus and how it could take advantage of >>this misbehaviour of movei - no idea at all. >> >>Actually I think there just is no way, but then maybe I just miss it. >> >>Peter > >Maybe I misunderstand Dann's post in the winboard forum but here is a link. > >http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/67791.htm > >Uri This won't work I assume. Also it's heavily theoretical. If you cause a buffer overflow in an internet service running with administrator privileges this might indeed cause a system access with root rights ( or the Windows equivalent). But I am really quite sure that potential crashes of your movei chess program don't fall into this category for various reasons. I can imagine an attack against Movei running on a chessserver - but how is this threat going to be worked on to threaten someone's computer? I know there are some people reading here who can give *much* better advice ( they usually have Chinese names from experience ;) ) , but I don't buy the danger caused by movei bugs for now. Peter
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