I will try to explain this all once again, but only ONCE again:
MSIE IFRAME bufferoverflow:
I did not disclose the vulnerability: I wrote an analysis of a publicly known
vulnerability. It was a warning that there could be malicious people stealing
your creditcard details and whatnot with a 0day exploit. Nobody seemed to
notice... Maybe the advisory was to technical, maybe the vendor didn't want bad
publicity, I don't know. I figured it was in everybody's interest to make the
exploit public knowledge so everybody would take notice and could take
precautions. In that I succeeded. What did I get for all this ? Fame and
attention.
MSIE nested array sort() loop Stack overflow exception:
People are expecting me to play by their rules but they do not offer me
anything in return. I've had enough of that, so I decided to release this
without enough details. Instead of relying on me for information, you now have
to rely on your vendor. Let's see how long it takes them to come up with an
analysis. Firefox and Opera just got cought in the crossfire.
My disclosure policy:
Most vendors treat "hackers" like free beta-testers that they can put the blame
on when publicity goes bad. Mozilla does pay for remotely exploitable
vulnerabilities. Fact of the matter is I could have released more IE 0day
exploits if I wanted to, but I've choosen to disclose them responsibly. That
choice was made a lot easier by iDefense, who do pay people for their time and
knowledge. I have also found other vulnerabilities in Firefox, but I also
choose not to disclose them untill I've analysed them and reported them to the
vendor.
So what do I get for all my time and work ?
- Do I get payed ? No.
- Do I get n00bs trying to flame me ? Yes.
- Do I get attention from people who do know what I am talking about and might
want to hire me to work for them ? Yes.
Cheers,
SkyLined
PS. Recursive function call will cause stack overflow causing write exception
in guard page on a push, no control over registers: no exploit.
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