From: 3 shool (3shool@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2006 - 02:58:38 EDT
Hi,
I'm testing a C# desktop application. During my testing so far we have
found security issues that lead to application crash with following
type of errors:
1. Acess Violation Acception
2. Null Reference Acception
3. Invalid Object Acception
4. Application crash dump
Are these issues really a security threat for a desktop application?
We got these errors by sending junk data over the network replies that
this application gets from its web services. However I fail to
understand the security implication and risk of these exceptions.
Since this is a desktop application and not a web service or server
how would these issues impact the security of the desktop application.
The application doesn't open any port on the network for incoming
requests. What would be the best strategy to test such application?
What would be the points from where attacker could attack such a
aplication.
I'll really appreciate some enlightening thoughts on above queries.
Thanx in advance.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This List Sponsored by: Cenzic
Need to secure your web apps?
Cenzic Hailstorm finds vulnerabilities fast.
Click the link to buy it, try it or download Hailstorm for FREE.
http://www.cenzic.com/products_services/download_hailstorm.php
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Sat Apr 12 2008 - 10:56:48 EDT