Unicode Vulnerability - How and Why?

This vulnerability began its life as the MS00-057 'File Permission Canonicalization' vulnerability a vulnerability which could allow a malicious user to gain higher levels of access to certain types of files than would normally be given. However in early October 2000 an anonymous user on the...

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Andrew Brannan

August 7, 2001

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