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Re: FAX virus

Subject: Re: FAX virus
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:18:51 -0200
Hi,

On Nov 21, 2007 9:56 AM, THORNTON Simon <Simon.THORNTON@swift.com> wrote:
a G3 Fax (CCITT T.4)
transmission uses a modified form of TIFF file for each page image it
sends.

digital standard machines you mean, I suppose;
and maybe the TIFF format would be a potential vector;

see,
libtiff itself offers some ways to crash the rendering process:

http://secunia.com/advisories/15320/

and

http://secunia.com/advisories/21304/


guess it could be done, yes.






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