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doperative writes "'Legal goons from Magix AG sent a nasty gram to a researcher who goes by "Acidgen" after he reported the stack buffer overflow in the company's Music Maker 16. According to the report, Acidgen alerted Magix representatives to the bug in several emails that also included proof-of-concept code that forced the Windows calculator to open, indicating the flaw could be exploited to execute malicious code on a victim's computer.
"They misunderstood that I was getting money for doing this ... and illegally breaking into networks" link
Comment: of course the vulnerability isn't in the application but in the underlying Operating System ..."
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"They misunderstood that I was getting money for doing this
Comment: of course the vulnerability isn't in the application but in the underlying Operating System
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