Blocked bmp files (buffer overflow) anyone?

[Julian Field]

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This is from a Microsoft vulnerability a few months back. Most machines
of course should have the patch installed by now, but I bet they haven't.

I blocked *.bmp files for quite a while. But I dropped that block recently.

Pentland G. wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've been getting reports of "possible buffer overflow" in bmp files and
>hence being stripped.
>
>
>It is my assumption at this time that our friendly neighbourhood virus
>checker (Sophos) is doing this.
>
>Have any of you guys out there seen this?
>
>Do any of you use Sophos and seen it doing this?
>
>For now I've turned the logging detail up and I'll let you all know if I
>find the cause.
>
>Thanks for any info,
>
>Gary
>
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